“The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.”

—  Friedrich Schiller, Wallenstein

Act IV, sc. v, Kellermeister (Master of the Cellar)
Wallenstein (1798), Part I - Die Piccolomini (The Piccolomini)

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