"Tel maître, tel valet."
— Bayard
January 1, 1970
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Attributed to Bayard; compare Tel valet, tel maitre ("Like master, like man"), Collin d'Harleville, Les Chateaux en Espagne, Act I, Scene VIII (translation by M. D'Orlange); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 213.
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Attributed to Bayard; compare Tel valet, tel maitre ("Like master, like man"), Collin d'Harleville, Les Chateaux en Espagne, Act I, Scene VIII (translation by M. D'Orlange); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 213.