Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have f…

Michel de Montaigne
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? ✨ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.
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Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre? ✨ Bartlett's Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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