"[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine."
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"There is nothing in the world I hold in greater horror than to see a body moving against its head: and I shall be very careful notto ally myself with such a monster."
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"This is the Lord's doing. And it is marvelous in our eyes."
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"There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me"
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"I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything."
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"When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease."
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"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."
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"I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned, Since from myself another self I turned. My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done."
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"[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart."
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"I have seen many a man turn his gold into smoke, but you are the first who has turned smoke into gold."
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"I observe and remain silent."
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"Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree."
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"The past cannot be cured."
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"The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower."
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"All my possessions for a moment of time."
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"I don't keep a dog and bark myself."
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"I will have here but one mistress and no master."
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"The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof."
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"My seat has been the seat of kings, and I will have no rascal to succeed me."
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"Princes have big ears which hear far and near."
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