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...there is nothing diviner about a king
than there is about a tramp, after all. He is just a cheap and hollow artificiality
when you don't know he is a king. But reveal his quality, and dear me, it
takes your breath away to look at him. I reckon we are all fools. Born so,
no doubt.
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
AI image created by R. Kent Rasmussen
Monarchs are usurpers and descendants of usurpers; for
the reason that no throne was ever set up in this world by the will, freely
exercised, of the only body possessing the legitimate right to set it
up--the numerical mass of the nation.
- Letter to Sylvester Baxter, 1889
Kings is mostly rapscallions.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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画像:Mark Twain meets the King]
Clemens with King
Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at a Windsor garden party.
Illustrated London News, June 29, 1907 from the Dave Thomson collection.
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