“Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?”
Stanisław Leszczyński (1677–1766) king of Poland
No. 56.
Maxims and Moral Sentences
“The palace is not safe, when the cottage is not happy.”
Speech to Wynyard Horticultural Show (1848), quoted in William Flavelle Monypenny and George Earle Buckle, The Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield. Volume II. 1860–1881 (London: John Murray, 1929), p. 709.
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