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“Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Napoleon.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d0b2281ad51caebc1a86502378027f8213e89b20d9946aecf4f73e2c8de52166
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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