“The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.”

— Voltaire

Reply to General Manstein. Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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French writer, historian, and philosopher 1694–1778

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