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Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is co

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions. – Walter Bagehot

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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with your loves. And though you have had, and may have, many mightier and wiser princes sitting in this seat; yet you never had, nor shall have any that will love you better. – Elizabeth I

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Being a princess isnt all its cracked up to be. – Princess of Wales Diana

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Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel. – Benjamin Disraeli

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In a world in which men write thousands of books and one million scientific papers a year, the mythic bricoleur is the man who plays with all that information and hears a music inside the noise. – William Irwin Thompson

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