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“'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 683de8a2650c1f6ed76d05bbe0a3288e24364a8dbe3d7af9ca0da5f02565527f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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