“Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!”

— Luigi Pirandello, Henry IV

Henry IV (1922), trans. Edward Storer http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561557863/Diplomacy_Woe_to_him_who_doesn't_know_how_to_wear_his.html

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