“Who seeth not that he that is an evil counsellor to a prince is an evil counsellor to a realm? If it be sin to be an evil counsellor to one man, wat abomination, what devilish and horrible sin is it to be a flatterer or an evil councillor to a prince?”

—  Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

Letter to Stephen Vaughan.

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