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Definition of Palace
Palace

The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception.

The official residence of a bishop or other distinguished personage.

Loosely, any unusually magnificent or stately house.

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Palace Quotations

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
Henry David Thoreau

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
Benjamin Disraeli

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
John Donne

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
Ian Botham

Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Fernando Pessoa

On October 18, 1941, I suddenly received a mandate from His Majesty to form a new cabinet. This was completely unexpected, and when I was summoned to the Imperial Palace I thought I would be questioned on the army's point of view.
Hideki Tojo

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace

Palace Translations

palace in Dutch is paleis
palace in French is palais
palace in German is Palast
palace in Italian is palazzo
palace in Norwegian is slott
palace in Spanish is palacio
palace in Swedish is palats, slott


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