To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the prov…

Robert Graves
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a man should have liberty to treat his children as slaves, if at the same time he treats his slaves with reasonable consideration. ✨ Robert Graves, Richard Francis (2000). I, Claudius ; and, Claudius the god, Carcanet Press Ltd.
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