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)

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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