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Cardinal Richelieu
Axel Oxenstierna
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu
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A Pack of Spanish Lies sent abroad in the world, first printed in the Spanish tongue, and translated out of the original. Now ripped up, unfolded and by just examination condemned, as containing false, corrupt and detestable wares worthy to be damned and burned.

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
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Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Axel Oxenstierna
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