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 VICTORIAYou 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.
More Queen Victoria Quotes
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That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England
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I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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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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Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.
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The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.
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Being married gives one one’s position like nothing else can.
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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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Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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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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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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She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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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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He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.
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