"Peoples, be peoples and others will respect you.……" — Unknown Author

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• It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is,… — 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… — Augustin Thierry
• The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with… — Joseph Conrad
• Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers -- and the media has evolved into… — Chris Hedges
• In the common words we use every day, souls of past races, the thoughts and feelings of individual men stand… — Owen Barfield
• Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played… — Hermann Hesse
• Dogs live with man as courtiers 'round a monarch, steeped in the flattery of his notice ... to push their… — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old… — 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… — William Makepeace Thackeray
• To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise. — Saadi

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