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of their master. These persons then displayed toward each other precisely the same puerile jealousies which animate the men of democracies, the same eagerness to snatch the smallest advantages which their equals contested, and the same desire to parade ostentatiously those of which they were in possession.
If national pride ever entered into the minds of courtiers, I do not question that they would display it in the same manner as the members of a democratic community.
