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I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Elizabeth I

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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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Queen of England Elisabetta I
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A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
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Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.
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There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue
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I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.
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Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
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Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.
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Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.
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As for me, I see no such great cause why I should either be fond to live or fear to die. I have had good experience of this world, and I know what it is to be a subject and what to be a sovereign. Good neighbours I have had, and I have met with bad: and in trust I have found treason.
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If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married.
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