League XIV

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    Half a league, half a league,
    Half a league onward,
    All in the valley of Death
    Rode the six hundred.
    “Forward the Light Brigade!
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.
    —Louis XIV (1638–1715)