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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.

Queen Elizabeth II

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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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My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
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[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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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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It is as queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains.
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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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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass.
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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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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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Before Each Numerous Portrait Sitting Teeth
Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.
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Baby Come Until Ready Wretch
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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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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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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