My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction. (Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex)

My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

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