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26 July 2010 - "Honi soit qui mal y pense" is what my father used to say, but I did not really understand the full meaning of that mysterious line. Only now I learned that this is French phrase attributed to King Edward III of England more than six centuries ago that more or less translates as "shame will be to whom who thinks evil of it". After King Edward III said it, the phrase became the motto of the English chivalric Order of the Garter. The motto also hung in Hong Kong's Legislative Council chamber until the handover in 1997.