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Quote by Oliver Cromwell
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. – 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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