"I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]"
"Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate."
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Source: Molière, quoting Louis XIV, Siècle de Louis Quatorze in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.
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