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Quotation from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
“His own personal disappointment seemed contemptible, in comparison with the anger of the king”
Ten Years Later, Chapter LVIII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation
Saint-Aignan, watching the king rage after the pastoral story at Madame's reception, sets his own wounded vanity beside offended majesty.
Citation: "His own personal disappointment seemed contemptible, in comparison with the anger of the king" — Alexandre Dumas, Ten Years Later, Chapter LVIII, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-ten-years-later-q2)
