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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

Queen Victoria

Were women to “unsex” themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
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Equality Hate Man Protection Sex Woman
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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Alcohol Drinking Impossible Practice
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Cup Instagram Captions Tea
No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God’s creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.
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Character Charity Civilization God
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
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Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
Everybody grows but me.
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Growth Myself One Liner
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Marriage Oneself
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Act Love Marriage
The Queen has done all she could on the dreadful subject of vivisection, and hopes that Mr. Gladstone will speak strongly against such a practice which is a disgrace to humanity.
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Animal Humanity Practice
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Home Men Quick
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Beautiful Dog
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Relationship Time
You will find as the children grow up that as a rule children are a bitter disappointment – their greatest object being to do precisely what their parents do not wish and have anxiously tried to prevent.
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Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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Book God Happiness Knowledge True
His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!
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Husband Poor Soul World Worth
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Artist Class Danger
I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Woman
The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!
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Danger Greatness Man Wild
[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
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Sex Woman
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Beautiful Children Ugly
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Pregnant Wife
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Alcohol Myself People Revolution
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Important Myself Thinking
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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Failure Learning Motivational Success
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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Myself Politics Talk
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.

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