Pope Nicholas III

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    “‘Tis with our judgments as our watches, none
    Go just alike, yet each believes his own.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
    He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
    And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;”
    —Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863)

    “The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.”
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)