I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
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KATARINA WITT Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
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BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
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ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
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That still discord doth sow.
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Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
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That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
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ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do.
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ELIZABETH I The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
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ELIZABETH I The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
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ELIZABETH I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
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ELIZABETH I All my possessions for a moment of time.
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