“Count de Monet: It is said that the people are revolting
King Louis XVI : You said it. They stink on ice.”
History of the World, Part I
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Count de Monet: Don't be saucy with me, Bearnaise.
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ibid.
1870s
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
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Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
He undertook to be the protector of the poor, and this principle has been followed by our later kings. At their throne suffering has always found a refuge and a hearing. ... Our kings have secured the emancipation of the serfs, they have created a thriving peasantry, and they may possibly be successful—the earnest endeavour exists, at any rate—in improving the condition of the working classes somewhat. To have refused access to the throne to the complaints of these operatives would not have been the right course to pursue, and it was, moreover, not my business to do it. The question would afterwards have been asked: “How rich must a deputation be in order to its reception by the King?”
Speech to the Prussian United Diet in answer to the petition of Wüstegiersdorf weavers (1865), quoted in W. H. Dawson, Bismarck and State Socialism: An Exposition of the Social and Economic Legislation of Germany since 1870 (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1891), p. 31
1860s
“Whoever said, "It's not whether you win or lose that counts", probably lost.”
Martina Navrátilová (1956) American-Czech tennis player
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David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 2
“I counted two and seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
" Cologne http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Cologne.html" (1828)
Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Wassail