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Quotes by Royalty
"Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can."
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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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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
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"I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman."
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"My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize."
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"I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross."
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"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."
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"I hope I'm not a tourist attraction - I'm sure that they come here really because St. Andrews is just amazing, a beautiful place."
Hope,
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"When I first met Kate I knew there was something very special about her. I knew there was possibly something that I wanted to explore there. We ended up being friends for a while and that just sort of was a good foundation. Because I do generally believe now that being friends with one another is a massive advantage. And It just went from there."
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"It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted."
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"One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without."
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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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"I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations."
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet."
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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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"My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please."
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"When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time."
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"In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them."
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"Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
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"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
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