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Quotes by Royalty
"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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"Lord Chancellor, did I deliver the speech well? I am glad of that, for there was nothing in it."
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"Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for."
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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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"Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government."
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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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"To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?"
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"A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head."
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"The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything."
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"A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly."
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"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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"People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me."
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"Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government."
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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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"It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken."
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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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"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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"Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet."
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"No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures."
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"I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear."
Kids,
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"She is incredibly fit, but we remind staff that she's not just the monarch, but our mother."
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"These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."
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"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."
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