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Daily quote by Louis XIV of France
- Toutes les fois que je donne une place vacante, je fais cent mécontents et un ingrat.
- Every time that I fill a high office, I create a hundred discontented men and an ingrate.
- Quoted in Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV (1751), ch.26
- Every time that I fill a high office, I create a hundred discontented men and an ingrate.