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QUEEN ELIZABETH IIThe world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally.
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I should like to be a horse.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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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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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
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1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.
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