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What is the English meaning of Euclid's famous saying "In geometry there are no roads paved for kings"?
There was no royal road to geometry.
The original text is
Ptolemy I, king of Egypt, asked Euclid "if there was in geometry any shorter way than that of the Elements", and he answered that there was no royal road to geometry.