Roman Emperor Frederick

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    “Ce corps qui s’appelait et qui s’appelle encore le saint empire romain n’était en aucune manière ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This agglomeration which called itself and still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was in no way holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.”
    —Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    “Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.”
    —Chinese proverb.

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    With words and people and love you move at ease.”
    —John Frederick Nims (b. 1913)