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Frederick the Great is said to have addressed these words to his nephew, "Je puis vous assurer, par mon expérience personelle, que ce plaisir est peu agréable à cultiver."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir