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Ten poor men sleep in peace on one straw heap, as Saadi sings, But the immensest empire is too narrow for two kings.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times; and which have much veneratoin, but no rest.

Unhappy France! Unhappy King!

And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.

And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedest the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

The king reigns but does not govern.

The Prussian Sovereigns are in possession of a crown not be the grace of the people, but by God's grace.

That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.

The king never dies.

Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

I dare be bold, you're one of those Have took the covenant, With cavaliers are cavaliers And with the saints, a saint.

Whatever I can say or do. I'm sure not much avails; I shall still Vicar be of Bray, Whichever side prevails.

I loved no King since Forty One When Prelacy went down, A Cloak and Band I then put on, And preached against the Crown.

God bless the King--I mean the faith's defender; God bless the pretender; But who the pretender is, or who is King-- God bless us all--that's quite another thing.

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

That man is deceived who thinks it slavery to live under an excellent prince. Never does liberty appear in a more gracious form than under a pious king.

'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.

Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.