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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

Source: Remark made following the disgrace of the Duke of Lauzun, c. 1669; in Le Si?cle de Louis XIV, by Voltaire ch. 26, 1751.
-- Louis XIV, (Sep 5 1638-1715), French ruler; He was King of France, 1643-1715, who ruled his country, principally from his great palace at Versailles.

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