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My heart knows of no other ambition than that of seeing you happy.

— Leopold I of Belgium

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You are as good a politician as you are a prelate.

I am saddened by the case of Constantinople, this journey was so well served to you, and you have spoiled it with a childishness.

Belgium is a boiler that needs valves.

He is as uncontrollable and crabby as one can imagine. Not to be understood, because neither his mother nor his father is like that.

My fate is bound up with that of England, and whatever befalls the green isle, I shall not easily abandon it.

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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.

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