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“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ff021f70f5f8a18c2509e371e0de3e5e96ec61abcedb2bf634d787a899910f40
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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