De Louis XIV

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    “The cruellest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.”
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    “Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.”
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