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Catherine the Great: I praise loudly,...

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I praise loudly, I blame softly

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.


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