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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

Queen Victoria

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Defeat Existence Inspirational Leadership Life Win
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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Feeling Girl Marriage Women
We will not have failure – only success and new learning.
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We poor creatures are born for man’s pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.
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Destiny Men Suffering
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
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Alcohol Drinking Impossible Practice
The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Important Myself Thinking
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Relationship Time
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Courage Man Thinking Women
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
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Baby Thinking Young
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Act Love Marriage
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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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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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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[On same-sex marriage:] No woman would do that.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Sex Woman
Oh! was ever woman so blessed as I am.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Blessing Grateful Myself Woman
He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Myself Politics Talk
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

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An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Beautiful Children Ugly
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.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Animal Humanity Practice
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Calm Event Myself Peace
Everybody grows but me.
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Growth Myself One Liner
When I think of a merry, happy, and free young girl – and look at the ailing aching state a young wife is generally doomed to – which you can’t deny is the penalty of marriage.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Girl Marriage Thinking Wife Young
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

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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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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