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- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- Loyalty in time of need is possibly one of the noblest of victories a courtier can win over himself. — Honore de Balzac
- Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and… — Augustin Thierry
- The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations… — Joseph Conrad
- Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into a class… — Chris Hedges
- Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you. Be courtiers and others will scorn you and it will be well deserved. — Unknown Author
- In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand around us,… — Owen Barfield
- Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,… — Hermann Hesse
- Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their favor in… — Robert Louis Stevenson
- Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who… — King Edward VIII
- The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. — Henry David Thoreau
- If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — William Makepeace Thackeray