"The king ... like the vulgar, thinks, feels, acts, and lives Just as his father did; the unconquered powers Of precedent and custom interpose Between a king and virtue."
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Fairy in Queen Mab (1813), Canto III, lines 97-100
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