Prince Augustus Frederick

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    For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.
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    I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.
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    For should your hands drop white and empty
    All the toys of the world would break.
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