“I have now learnt to despise you," he said. "You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!”

—  Hans Christian Andersen, book The Swineherd

The Swineherd
Fairy Tales (1835)

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