“What can they see in the longest kingly line in Europe, save that it runs back to a successful soldier?”

— Walter Scott , book Woodstock

Woodstock, Chap. xxxvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet 1771–1832

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