"I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff."

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to tempt and be tempted are closely allied; and in spite of all the finest moral maxims buried in the mind, when emotion interferes, when feeling makes its appearance, one is already much further involved that one realizes, and I have still not learnt how to prevent its appearance.

— Catherine the Great