The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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Alphonsus King of Spain, said to those who told him that his Cloaths were so plain that they did not distinguish him from his Subjects: I had much rather be distinguished from my Subjects by my Honour and Virtue, than by my Crown and Purple,

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Alphonse Roy d’Espagne dit à ceux qui lui remontroient que la simplicité de ses Habits le confondoit avec ses sujets: J’aime bien mieux que ma Gloire & ma Vertu me distinguent de mes sujets, que le Diademe & la Pourpre.