"A crown is merely a hat that lets…" — Frederick The Great
"A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in."
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Frederick The Great
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49 Quotes by Frederick The Great
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It is disgusting to note the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects and the amount of…
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The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.
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Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of…
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My people must drink beer.
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Do not neglect the principles of foresight and know that often, puffed up with success, armies have lost the fruit…
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A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the…
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Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not…
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If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
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Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character,…
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Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us…
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown…
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no…
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Behaving like a princess is work. It's not just about looking beautiful or wearing a crown. It's more about how…
— Julie Andrews
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I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and…
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But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or…
— George Arnold
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So says the most ancient book of the Earth; thus it is written on its leaves of marble, lime, sand,…
— Johann Gottfried Herder
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He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his…
— Paul Klee
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Christian worship must contain both the cross and the crown. Sing of majesty, and sing of mercy.
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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our…
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