Quotes with courtier

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• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• The chief requisites for a courtier are a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.

  Lady Blessington
  Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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• The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.

  Henry David Thoreau
  American writer (1817 - 1862)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• courtier-like
• requisites
• conscience
• inflexible
• politeness
• scholars

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