A great and peaceable people, conscious of its subjection to a boastful little monarch, was obliged to pay for the claptrap of its vainglorious sovereign, who only degraded them with the title of Huns that he might ape an Attila.

— Emil Ludwig Wilhelm Hohenzollern: The Last of the Kaisers (1926)

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