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How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the…

Quote byH. Rider Haggard · 1856–1925

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Allan Quatermain (1887), Chapter 15, "Sorais' Song".

English (original)

How true is the saying that the very highest in rank are always the most simple and kindly. It is in your half-and-half sort of people that you find pompousness and vulgarity.

— H. Rider Haggard

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