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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Princes

Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country’s pride,
When once destroy’d, can never be supplied.
Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 53.