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Quote by Oliver Cromwell
Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my pictur

Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. – Oliver Cromwell

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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. – Oliver Cromwell

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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

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