Pope Nicholas III

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    Is this a dinner? this a genial room?
    No, ‘tis a temple, and a hecatomb.
    A solemn sacrifice, performed in state,
    You drink by measure, and to minutes eat.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Whatever qualities [Tsar Nicholas I] may have shown in his own kingly profession, it must be admitted that in his dealings with the Russian Muse he was at the worst a vicious bully, at the best a clown.
    Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

    The army is the true nobility of our country.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)