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GOVERNMENT > empress > Catherine the Great
In my position...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
Source: Letter, 23 Aug. 1794.
-- Catherine the Great, (May 2 1729-1796), Russian empress; As Empress, 1762-1796, she worked toward westernization, expansion, and made St. Petersburg a cultural rival with Paris.