...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.
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Rae Carson
The king reigns but does not govern.
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Otto Von Bismarck
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
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Sir William Blackstone
Every noble crown is and on Earth will forever be a crown of thorns.
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Thomas Carlyle
The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.
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Samuel Johnson
More Quotes By Thomas Carlyle
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
