Eleanor of Aquitaine quotes
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“I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn...but the troops were dazzled!”
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“Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits.”
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“Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does not respect or spare anyone, not even itself.”
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“What family doesn't have its ups and downs?”
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“My child, seek those things which make for peace. Cease to stir up the King against the Church, and urge upon him a better course of action. If you will promise to do this, I in return promise to entreat the merciful Lord to grant you offspring.”
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“In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.”
-- Eleanor of Aquitaine
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“We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.”
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“Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.”
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“Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them.”
Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 109), 1985.
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“RUIN, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the virtue of maids.”
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“Only the deepest love will persuade me into matrimony, which is why I shall end up an old maid.”
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“I never really feel like I'm sure a film's gonna happen until I'm maybe halfway through.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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