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A FRENCH nobleman once showing Matthew Prior the palace of his master at
Versailles, and desiring him to observe the many trophies of Louis the
Fourteenth's victories, asked Prior if King William, his master, had
many such trophies in his palace. No, said Prior, the monuments of my
master's victories are to be seen everywhere but in his own house.
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