Kalabalik: okay this is freaking AMAZING and Charles is BOTH awesome and crazy :P
So I'm reading another book on the Great Northern War, and this quote is too good not to share. When the Allies are trying to make peace,
It was not likely, [a minister] banteringly remarked, that Charles would admit Peter to a peace on any terms, "since in that case he would have no Enemy left at all; and to have always one seems to be an article very essential to his happiness."
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So I'm reading another book on the Great Northern War, and this quote is too good not to share. When the Allies are trying to make peace,
It was not likely, [a minister] banteringly remarked, that Charles would admit Peter to a peace on any terms, "since in that case he would have no Enemy left at all; and to have always one seems to be an article very essential to his happiness."
LOL forever. If the shoe fits, Charles...