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“The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.”

— Voltaire

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Reply to General Manstein. Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir"; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Voltaire. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Voltaire. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire

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