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

— Catherine II of Russia The Historians' History of the World (1904)

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As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367

Variants

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

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