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The story goes that the motto comes from an episode where one of the Countess of Salisbury's garters fell off at a court ball, and the monarch of the time, Edward III, picked it up and put it on his own leg, uttering the immortal words as a rebuke to the courtiers who were laughing at the embarrassed countess.
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