# Quote — Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

> "Sir Thomas, arrest this—No, hold!" His face lighted, and he confronted the ragged candidate with this question—
>
> "Where lieth the Great Seal? Answer me this truly, and the riddle is unriddled; for only he that was Prince of Wales can so answer! On so trivial a thing hang a throne and a dynasty!"

- Author: [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md)
- Book: [The Prince and the Pauper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/the-prince-and-the-pauper.md)
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> "Let the child go," said he; "ye heartless dogs, do ye not see how young and frail he is? Let him go—I will take his lashes."

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> The distant dogs howled, the melancholy kine complained, and the winds went on raging, whilst furious sheets of rain drove along the roof; but the Majesty of England slept on, undisturbed, and the calf did the same, it being a simple creature, and not easily troubled by storms or embarrassed by sleeping with a king.

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> "Rise, Sir Miles Hendon, Knight," said the King, gravely—giving the accolade with Hendon's sword—"rise, and seat thyself. Thy petition is granted. Whilst England remains, and the crown continues, the privilege shall not lapse."

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