Queen Elizabeth I, c. 1600. National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Miscellany
Thirtieth U.S. president Calvin Coolidge, nicknamed “Silent Cal,” once sat next to a woman at a dinner party who reportedly said to him, “I have made a bet, Mr. Coolidge, that I could get more than two words out of you.” To which he replied, “You lose.”
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
—Vegetius, c. 385
