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“Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.”

Wells May I Can Seems Wish Duty Kings Glory Woods Bread Bless Trifles Wilder Redwoods

Author:John Muir

“Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.”

Earth Nations Kings Workers Valuable Bread Capitalist Idle Oppressed Handful Oppressors Superintendents

Book:Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890

Source: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890

“Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom.”

Ifs Giving Should Littles Book Might Sides Kings Red Lonely Give Me Wine Dear Stores Kingdoms Bread Verses Idleness Red Wine Lonely Places

Book:Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

“Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king.”

Land Kings Stealing Bread

Author:David Gemmell

“You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?”

Want Needs Feels Grief Like You Kings Taste Bread Live By Call Me Friend In Need

Author:William Shakespeare

“Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.”

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.”

Self My Own Rocks Couple Kings Bread Queens Cheese Kings And Queens

Book:El Asesino y otros poemas

Source: El Asesino y otros poemas

“The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.”

Kings Eating Bread Honey Towers Basements Eating Bread

Book:Black House: A Novel

Source: Black House: A Novel

“For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead Kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”

Thinking Men Mind Ideas Able Virtue Kings Deserve Rewards Hunger Punishment Bread Luxury Earning Starving Tombs Deserving Free Your Mind

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.”

Ifs Said Kings Eating Philosopher Bread Flattering Supper Subservient Eating Bread Lentils

Book:The Song of the Bird

Source: The Song of the Bird

“When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”

Mind Littles Book Teaching Kings Library Bread Shelter Belly

Book:The Prince and the Pauper

Source: The Prince and the Pauper