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Oliver Cromwell1599–1658

Do not trust to that; for these very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Oliver Cromwell on fame

Remark to John Lambert as crowds cheered them (June 1650), as quoted by Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time

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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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