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Queen Victoria

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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Children Disappointment Grow Up Parents
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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Book Religious
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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Doubt Happiness Marriage Poor Thinking
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Calm Event Myself Peace
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.
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Equality Hate Man Protection Sex Woman
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
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Book God Happiness Knowledge True
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Artist Class Danger
[On alcohol:] Total abstinence is an impossibility and it will not do to insist on it as a general practice.
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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
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
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Beautiful Children Ugly
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
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.
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Animal Humanity Practice
Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.
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Relationship Time
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
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Act Love Marriage
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Eyes Thinking Yourself
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.
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Alcohol Myself People Revolution
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of ‘Women’s Rights’. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself.
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Anger Right Women
Bring me a cup of tea and the ‘Times.’
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Cup Instagram Captions Tea
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
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.
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Myself Pregnant Thinking
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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Defeat Existence Inspirational Leadership Life Win
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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Home Men Quick
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
Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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Marriage Oneself
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Pregnant Wife

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

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