18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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[mildred_of_midgard]

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."

LOL forever. If the shoe fits, Charles...