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I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.

Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

I still have a temper, I suppose.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books.

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

I don't have a problem with my temper.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.