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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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I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
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The past cannot be cured.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!
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Let tyrants fear, I have always so behaved myself that, under God, I have placed my chiefest strength and safeguard in the loyal hearts and good-will of my subjects.
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I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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Princes have big ears which hear far and near.
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A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food.
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we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.
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[To Parliament, when it urged her to marry and settle the succession:] You attend to your own duties and I'll perform mine.
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No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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