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  1. David Gemmell _ Shield of Thunder

    There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.
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  2. Christopher Marlowe

    But what are kings, when regiment is gone
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  3. Victor Hugo _ Les Misérables

    This light of history is pitiless; it has a strange and divine quality that, luminous as it is, and precisely because it is luminous, often casts a shadow just where we saw a radiance; out of the same man it makes two different phantoms, and the one attacks and punishes the other, the darkness of the despot struggles with the splendor of the captain. Hence a truer measure in the final judgment of the nations. Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ The Shepherd's Crown

    It's like chess, you know. The Queen saves the King.
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  5. Sarah J. Maas _ Throne of Glass

    He didn't know why, but seeing her made him feel like a man. She was something out of a dream - a dream in which he was not a spoiled young prince, but a king.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Tombs of Atuan

    Am I supposed to feel so much awe and so on about the Godking? After all, he's just a man ... He's about fifty years old, and he's bald. And I'll bet he has to cut his toenails too like any other man. I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is, he'll be much godlier after he's dead.
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  7. Daniel Defoe _ The True-Born Englishman: A

    When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
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  8. Delia Sherman _ Mad Hatters and March Hares

    My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.
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  9. William Shakespeare _ King Henry VI, Part 3

    My Crown is in my heart, not on my head:Not deck'd with Diamonds, and Indian stones:Nor to be seen: my Crown is call'd Content,A Crown it is, that seldom Kings enjoy.
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  10. Peter S. Beagle _ Two Hearts

    It's not you worries me. The king is a good man, and an old friend, but it has been a long time, and kings change. Even more than other people, kings change."
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  11. Charles Frazier _ Varina

    Take a king or a president or anybody. Put a heavy sack of gold in one hand and a feather-light declaration about freedom in the other. And then an outlaw sticks a pistol in his face and says give me one or the other. Every time-every ten out of ten -he'll hug the sack and throw away the ideals. Because the sack's what's behind the ideals, like the foundation under a building."
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  12. Naguib Mahfouz _ Sugar Street

    إن بلادنا في حاجة إلى جرعات قوية من قلة الأدب حيال الملوك حتى تفيق من إغمائها الطويل
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