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Cromwell's rise to prominence and power was based upon qualities such as good
fortune and unforeseen circumstance, making his own epitaph "No man climbs
higher that he who knows not whither he goest" convincing.For his
first forty years, Cromwell lived in obscurity, victim of primogeniture,
hard times and an irascible temperament.Though Cromwell's family had
been one of the wealthiest and most politically influential families in the area,
Cromwell was the unfortunate product of demographic chance: the eldest son of
a younger brother |
