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Those who touch the sceptres of princes deserve no pity

Quote byElizabeth I of England · 1533–1603

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Remarks to the French ambassador on Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron's rebellion against Henry IV of France (c. July 1602), quoted in J. E. Neale, Queen Elizabeth [1934] (1942), p. 364.

English (original)

Those who touch the sceptres of princes deserve no pity.

— Elizabeth I of England

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