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GOVERNMENT > ruler > Christina of Sweden
As you know,...
Vendor: GOVERNMENT
As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.
Source: Letter, 1657, in Christina of Sweden, by Sven Stolpe, 1960.
-- Christina of Sweden, (Dec 8 1626-1689), Swedish ruler; As Queen of Sweden (1644-54) she stunned all Europe by abdicating her throne.