• Repeated by Thomas Babington Macaulay in a review of "Frederick the Great and his Times. Edited, with an Introduction, by Thomas Campbell, Esq". Edinburgh Review, ISSN 1751-8482, 04/1842, Volume 75, Issue 151, p. 241-242, though it does not appear in the original work.
• Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)
"My people and I," he said, "have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets ""My people and I," he said, "have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."" in the context of "Attributed by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Life of Frederick the Great (1882), pg 48.
• Repeated by Thomas Babington Macaulay in a review of "Frederick the Great and his Times. Edited, with an Introduction, by Thomas Campbell, Esq". Edinburgh Review, ISSN 1751-8482, 04/1842, Volume 75, Issue 151, p. 241-242, though it does not appear in the original work.
• Knowles, Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations (5th Edition) (Oxford University Press, 1999)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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