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Quotation from History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle

“It belongs not to me, but to the State”

Thomas Carlyle (spoken by Friedrich II (message quoted from Preuss))

History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Book XXI, Ch. IX (Friedrich's Last Illness and Death) (Project Gutenberg #2121)

Explaining why his clerks must now come at four in the morning: the time he has left is not his own.

Citation: "It belongs not to me, but to the State" — Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Book XXI, Ch. IX (Friedrich's Last Illness and Death) (Project Gutenberg #2121). (id carlyle-frederick-the-great-q8)

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