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Quotation by Oliver Cromwell
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Memorials of the English Affairs Bulstrode Whitelock (1732)Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches Thomas Carlyle (1845)Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches Thomas Carlyle (1846)quoted in Anecdotes of Painting in England Horace Walpole (1763)quoted in Essays in English History A.J.P. Taylor (1976)
I would rather have a plain, russet-coated captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call "a gentleman" and is nothing else.
Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658), British Parliamentarian general, Lord Protector of England. letter, Sept. 1643. Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, Thomas Carlyle (1846).
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