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the prince their peoples. Just as artists who draw landscapes get down in the valley to study the mountains and go up to the moun- tains to look down on the valley, so one has to be a prince to get to know the character of a people and a man of the people to know the character of a prince. Your Highness, please take this small gift in the spirit in which it is given. Study it carefully and you will find that my most earnest wish is that you should achieve the greatness that your status and qualities promise. Then if, from the high peak of your position, you ever look down on those far below, you will see how very ungenerously and unfairly life continues to treat me.