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Catherine the Great: For to tempt...

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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied . . . whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

Source: Memoirs.
-- 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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