"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words."
"When the Quaker Penn kept his hat on in the royal presence, Charles (King Charles II) politely removed his, explaining that it was the custom in that place for only one person at a time to remain covered."
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Source: Arthur Bryant (1985). “Set in a silver sea: the island peoples from earliest times to the fifteenth century”
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