I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which...
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
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I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
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There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
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The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.
PRINCESS DIANA

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
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I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and ...
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If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven...
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Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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I like to be a free spirit. Some don't like that, but that's the way I am.
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OWEN GLENDOWER Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
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Everybody grows but me.
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I think middle-age is the best time, if we can escape the fatty degeneration of the conscience which often sets in at about fifty.

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