Quote#Happiness
You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great…
Quote byOliver Cromwell · 1599–1658
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Speech to Parliament (25 January 1658), quoted in The Diary of Thomas Burton, esq., volume 2: April 1657 - February 1658 (1828), p. 361.
English (original)
You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
— Oliver Cromwell
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