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Catherine the Great: Your wits make...

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Your wits make others witty.

Source: Letter to Voltaire, In The Complete Works of Catherine II, ed. Evdokimov, 1893.
-- 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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