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Famous quotes containing the words emperor, late and/or reign:

    The greater the privilege, the more hidden the arrogance. The Emperor of China need not exist.
    Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
    Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)