The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIWhen life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
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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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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Good memories are our second chance at happiness.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else.
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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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