Catherine the Great Quotes

Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

Catherine the Great

• Man
• Smoking
• Lips
• Cigar
• Not Fresh

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• Any man who doesn't partake in cigar smoking is nothing more than a weak-willed, meandering oaf, and I would never put my lips to those of any creature, man or beast, whose lips were not fresh awash in the currents of cigar smoke.'

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Man
  • Smoking
  • Lips