Pope Gregory III

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    I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
    Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)

    Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
    —Dr. Gregory (18th century)

    The Empress is Legitimist, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.
    —Napoleon Bonaparte III (1808–1873)