Russian empress.
"As Empress, 1762-1796, she worked toward westernization, expansion, and made St. Petersburg a cultural rival with Paris."
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . .
Your wits make others witty.
"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied . . . whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
"I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and that good Lord will forgive me, that's his."
