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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

Frederick the Great

My latest passion will be for literature.

Frederick the Great, in old age.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

Frederick the Great, in youth.

Of satires I think as Epictetus did: “If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it.” By dint of time and experience I have learned to be a good post-horse: I go through my appointed stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road.

Frederick the Great.