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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

— Catherine II of Russia

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I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

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I will live to make myself not feared.

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