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• The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West.
  Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years....
• Queen Elizabeth rules UK.
• My mother told me, "Elwood,"--she always called me "Elwood"--"in this world you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.
  Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant....
• France was in a very serious state. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened.
  The Marseillaise was the theme song of the French Revolution, and it catapulted into Napoleon....
• No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- The Critic, Act ii, Sc.
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• In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
  The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athen was democratic because the people took the law into their own hands....
• They pass best over the world who trip over it quickly
  for it is but a bog- if we stop we sink. -- Queen Elizabeth...
• True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of the others.
  -- Queen Elizabeth...
• When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were able
  for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with him to the station?...