Catherine the Great
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I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.
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I beg you take courage the brave soul can mend even disaster.
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I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
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A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
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In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.