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“We can make majors and officers every year, but not scholars; kings can invest knights and barons, as Sigismund the emperor confessed.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 268bdcc2886caac045afcb7c94bfa4443d0edaab14a2e902b32bebe10cbc2135
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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