Book: The Prince and the pauper

You forget, sir, that she is of low rank. The Tower is a dungeon for nobles.

The Prince of Poverty walked past them in flowing rags and shook hands with the Prince of Untold Wealth.

The same fate - the fate of oblivion - befell his poor mother and sisters. At first, he longed for them greatly and longed to see them, but then one thought that one fine day they might come to him in their dirty rags, betray him with their kisses and push him from a height into the old mud and bitter poverty - one the thought thrilled him. In the end, this memory also ceased to bother his soul.

The power that can make a person forget and betray a childhood friend will naturally be omnipotent over people who have in the foreground the question of their daily bread - the question of life and death, and for whom neither friendship nor love plays any role in all this, no sense of honor.

It is not enough for a person to be full; it is necessary that he had a mind and a heart. I will try to remember this well, so that this lesson will not be wasted either for me or for my people. Only learning ennobles a person and makes him kind and merciful.

She's a beautiful girl, good rules and good behavior: no one has seen her drunk more than four times a week.

Light bad: the kings would from time to time to experience their laws and learn mercy.

Who love, do not cheat.

If the one from whom the laws emanate, has no respect for them self, how can he claim to be respected by others?

People are so offended him, so rudely with him were, that he was truly a comfort to finally find a companion, which although not deep mind, but there is a kind heart and gentle spirit.

An intelligent man does not waste the gift of such useful things as a lie!

I became a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!

He was insinuating, flattering language, and amazing ability to lie - and these qualities are the easiest to fool a blind affection.

What do you know about oppression and pain? I know about it, know my people, but not you.