Let four captains Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, For he was likely, had he been put on, To have proved most royally.
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Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.
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There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
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I urged that kings were dangerous. He said, then have cats. He was sure that a royal family of cats would answer every purpose. They would be as useful as any other royal family, they would know as much, they would have the same virtues and the same treacheries, the same disposition to get up shindies with other royal cats, they would be laughably vain and absurd and never know it, they would be wholly inexpensive, finally, they would have as sound a divine right as any other royal house...The worship of royalty being founded in unreason, these graceful and harmless cats would easily become as sacred as any other royalties, and indeed more so, because it would presently be noticed that they hanged nobody, beheaded nobody, imprisoned nobody, inflicted no cruelties or injustices of any sort, and so must be worthy of a deeper love and reverence than the customary human king, and would certainly get it.
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I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.
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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of this particular convention is due to the fact that, being stupid, affectionate, gregarious, and easily stampeded, the societies formed by sheep are most like human ones.
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Apple Computer can argue that its use of the trademark has nothing to do with music. They could say, 'This isn't our music. We're selling access to this service.' That's another argument for a low royalty.
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If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
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If God calls you to be a missionary, don't stoop to be a king.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
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Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.
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We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you.
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From his childhood onwards this boy will be surrounded by sycophants and flatterers. In due course, following the precedent which has already been set, he will be sent on a tour of the world and probably rumors of a morganatic marriage alliance will follow, and the end of it will be the country will be called upon to pay the bill.
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A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.
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Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.
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Royalty is either going to do very well with cloning, or it's going to disappear completely.
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There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
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The fate of the State decides theirs: clauses of treaties determine their affections.
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Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town?
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There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, and seek God.
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
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Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.
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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
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Was I not born of old worthy lineage? Was not my mother queen, my father king?...
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
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This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, Sits not so easy on me as you think.
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They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God.
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