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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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Elizabeth I
Age: 69 †
Born: 1533
Born: September 7
Died: 1603
Died: March 24
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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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A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
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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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[When opposed by leaders of her Council:] I will make you shorter by the head!
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I would not open windows into men's souls.
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He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
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I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince.
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Men fight wars. Women win them.
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It is hard to find beauty in the art of self expression.
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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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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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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. Therefore I have cause to wish nothing more than to content the subject and that is a duty which I owe. Neither do I desire to live longer days than I may see your prosperity and that is my only desire.
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