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"Are not the rich and the poor brothers?"
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The young King
"The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."
The Bishop
"A greater than I hath crowned thee"
The Bishop
"There is Blood in the heart of the ruby, and Death in the heart of the pearl."
The young King
"We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free."
The weaver
"For how shall the people know that thou art a king, if thou hast not a king's raiment?"
The Chamberlain