Word: founts
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...young emperor, conscious that he was the fount of all wisdom, began at once to assert his superior knowledge over that of his various ministers: and it mattered not that a minister happened to be master of his own specialty. Emperor Wilhelm's notion of monarchy is that all whom the monarch condescends to notice are thereby greatly honored and should in return be entirely submissive to the monarch's bidding. Thus did Emperor Wilhelm turn out Minister Gosler. So suddenly does the emperor indulge his whims that the Berliners call him Der Ploetzliche...
Dabbling a chubby hand i' the fount, to lose...
...that Castalian fount - far, far above...
...rivers that flow from the high-nurtured fount...
...MIGHTY Fount of our Knowledge, twice blessed thou...