Peter the Great:

My 'good fortune' consisted in having received fifty blows when I was condemned to receive a hundred.

— Peter the Great Early Modern

Modernizer of Russia

Reflection on a past punishment or hardship

Unknown, 17th-18th century

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Cross Reference

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