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    “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “The King [Charles II] after the Restoration accused the poet, Edmund Waller, of having made finer verses in praise of Oliver Cromwell than of himself; to which he agreed, saying, that Fiction was the soul of Poetry.”
    —Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    “No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.”
    —Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)

    “You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.”
    —Mario Cuomo (b. 1932)