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Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) Prussian Field Marshal
Waldersee in his diary, 16 March 1888, on the recently deceased Kaiser Wilhelm I
“As the Ruler, so the people.”
— Tulsidas
Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 5
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