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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Queen Elizabeth II

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We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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Chance Good Happiness Memory Second
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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All Consequence Deep Extend Past Sincere Suffer Sympathy Those Thought Trouble
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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I should like to be a horse.
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Horse Like Should
They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.
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Aware Been Continent Ocean People Spread Support Task Throughout Time Wide World
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Ache Being Criticize Expression Serious Simply Smile
[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Before Each Numerous Portrait Sitting Teeth
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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Let Monopoly Ourselves Seriously Take Us Wisdom
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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Commonwealth Define Easy Enough Indeed Pastime Popular Quite
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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Bothered Devotion Give Heart Island Nation People
In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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Active Axvious Lead Live Lonely Money People Turbulence Uneventful Worlld
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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Breakfast Country Egg Myself Prefer
There are long periods when life seems a small, dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence.
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Business Caught Dul Event Give Great No Period Point Round Seem Small Some Suddenly
The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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Course Heart History Long Man Nation Run Soundness Upward Women

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