Oliver Cromwell/the Protectorate - 1653%e2%80%9358

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    “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “My grandmother stood among her kettles and ladles.
    Smiling, in faulty grammar,
    She praised my fortune and urged my lofty career.
    So to please her I studied—but I will remember always
    How she poured confusion out, how she cooled and labeled
    All the wild sauces of the brimming year.”
    —Mary Oliver (b. 1935)

    “Necessity hath no law.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)