There are no small steps in great affairs. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · Skopia

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Autobiography and memoir

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz

1717

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Gondi Paul De, Jean-Francois. Memoires du Cardinal de Retz [The Memoirs of the cardinal de Retz]. c. 1717, bk. 2.

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