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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
Elizabeth I
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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Be always faithful to me, as I always desire to keep you in peace and if there have been wiser kings, none has ever loved you more than I have.
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It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.
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For, what is a family without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I think, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.
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Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst
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The end crowneth the work.
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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
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They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
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God forgive you, but I never can.
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Affection! Affection is false.
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Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
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O Fortune, how thy restless, wavering state has fraught with cares my troubled wit!
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I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.
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I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.
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