> The emperor marched in the procession under the splendid canopy, and all the people in the streets and windows said, ‘Oh, how fine are the emperor’s new clothes! Don’t they fit him to perfection? And see his long train!’ Nobody would admit they couldn’t see anything, for that would prove them unfit for their position or a fool.
> ”Doesn’t it look splendid?” he said. “And the colors! The pattern! The magnificence of it all!”
> “He doesn’t have anything on!” the whole town cried out at last.
> “The emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, ‘This procession must go on.’ So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at all.”