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Quotes by Royalty
"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
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"Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too."
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"The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance."
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"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."
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"No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures."
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"It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do."
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"Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed."
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"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
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"I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes."
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"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
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"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken."
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"When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy."
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"Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?"
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"Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth."
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"If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love."
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"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
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"I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers."
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"Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand."
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"Hong Kong has created one of the most successful societies on Earth."
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"I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me."
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"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
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"I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman."
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"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
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