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Catherine the Great: I shall be...

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I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection, AApex Software, 1994.
-- 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.


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