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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!

Queen Victoria

[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
Just close your eyes—and think of England.
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Eyes Thinking Yourself
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.
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Courage Man Thinking Women
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
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Calm Event Myself Peace
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
She was such a beautiful and sweet creature and so full of tricks.
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Beautiful Dog
I don’t dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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Baby Thinking Young
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
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Artist Class Danger
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
I love peace and quiet, I hate politics and turmoil. We women are not made for governing, and if we are good women, we must dislike these masculine occupations.
QUEEN VICTORIA

Goodness Hate Love Peace Quiet Woman
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
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
Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.
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Pregnant Wife
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
Nothing will turn a man’s home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.
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