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Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
Politician
Queen Of England
Greenwich Palace
The Virgin Queen
Gloriana
Good Queen Bess
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth Tudor
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elizabeth I
the Virgin Queen Elizabeth
Queen of England Elisabetta I
Queen of England Elisabeth I
Queen of England Bess
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Brass
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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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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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[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.
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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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A good face is the best letter of recommendation.
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I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.
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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
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I will be as good unto ye as ever a Queen was unto her people. No will in me can lack, neither do I trust shall there lack any power. And persuade yourselves that for the safety and quietness of you all I will not spare if need be to spend my blood.
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