The maxim of the king and barber's son. It is used to denote a man's innate fond- ness for his own possession-how- soever ugly or despicable in the eyes of others. It takes its origin from a story which states that a king on one occassion asked his barber to bring to him the finest boy that he could see in his kingdom. The barber roamed for a long time over every part of the realm, but could discover no boy such as...