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Quotation from The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas

“Courtiers flatter kings with the remembrance of past distresses, as with the hopes of future good fortune”

Alexandre Dumas (spoken by Narrator)

The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Chapter XXXIX, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation

The court laughs at the king's memory of poverty.

Citation: "Courtiers flatter kings with the remembrance of past distresses, as with the hopes of future good fortune" — Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Chapter XXXIX, trans. Anonymous 19th-century translation. (id dumas-vicomte-de-bragelonne-q1)

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