Source: Prince on a White Horse (1982), Chapter 4 “The Dragon of Brass” (p. 207)
        “No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous —
Almost, at times, the Fool.”
    
    
    
    
        
        
        
            
            
        
        
        
        
        
        The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
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“It is not the trappings that make the prince, nor, indeed, the sword that makes the warrior.”
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                                        Section 3, Member 2, Remedies against discontents. 
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                                        Quote in an undated letter to Alleta de Jongh, Paris, c. Spring 1912; as cited in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 243, note 61 
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                                        On Zhou Enlai, said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 109. 
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