3 December 2020 Catherine the Great 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.
3 December 2020 Catherine the Great I shall be an autocrat, that’s my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that’s his.
3 December 2020 Catherine the Great A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
3 December 2020 Catherine the Great In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.