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I'm trying to think of a quote, but I can't place it. It's something about the crimes of kings being played out by fools. It may be Shakespeare.
It has to do with parrellelism in a plot where a great person commits an offense, and in a subplot, a simpleton commits a similar offense, and to the great person, grave consequences result, and with the simpleton, the matter becomes a bit of a farce.
Can anyone think of the quote?
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Thanks for trying, but it's a one liner, something like, "The errors of kings played out by fools." I don't know. I think Roger Ebert quoted it in one of his reviews of a woody allen movie. I'll track it down.
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