I am a Democrat. All of my family have been persons of peasant origin, who have wrung a meagre sufficiency from a harsh world by the labour of their hands. I acknowledge no one my superior merely on grounds of a more fortunate destiny, a favoured birth. I did what any such man would do when confronted with Queen Victoria; I fell immediately to my knees.
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The Great Queen is AmusedRobertson Davies
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I would rather have been a French peasant and worn wooden shoes; I would rather have lived in a hut, with a vine growing over the door and the grapes growing and ripening in the autumn sun; I would rather have been that peasant, with my wife by my side and my children upon my knees, twining their arms of affection about me; I would rather have been that poor French peasant and gone down at last to the eternal promiscuity of the dust, followed by those who loved me; I would a thousand times rather have been that French peasant than that imperial personative of force and murder; and so I would ten thousand thousand times.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
Abraham Joshua Heschel
[Talking about the royal family] 'Cause they got in at '52, and then immediately the Queen introduced the new then in the '60s, the Queen decided to change the way that and she encouraged people to and in the '70s she completely redistributed and realised she had too much wealth, so she decided to then in the '80s, they set up a charity to do and then they encouraged other people to and in the '90s, they just totally relaxed, and they said, "Everyone, why don't you " And then in the 2000s, they've set a great example by stop me at any point. I think she's got 20 years left. She's in there, but she essentially does what she does on the stamps.
Eddie Izzard
But the best thing for you would be queen, so be queen; you're all that I need. Though I know that it never can be, I'd be pleased to post your decrees, to fall at your knees; to name all your streets and to sit down and weep when you're carried back through them and set down to sleep, and to lie by your side for sublime centuries, 'till we crumble to dust when we're crushed by a single sunbeam.
Okkervil River
You stare down at some crowd from your trapeze
And when you fell they fell down on their knees
And when you broke they scrambled for a piece
And when you spoke I felt their anger freeze. ~ MetropolisSteve Kilbey
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