Charles II of England quotes
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“If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.”
-- Charles II of EnglandSource : "Hudibras" by Samuel Butler, edited by Henry George Bohn, (Part 1, Canto 1), 1859.
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“I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.”
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“This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.”
-- Charles II of EnglandSource : Reply to Lord Rochester's epitaph on him.
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“You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.”
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“Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.”
-- Charles II of England
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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”
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“A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.”
Source : Her Son's Wife ch. 37 (1926)
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“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.”
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“I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.”
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“Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.”
Source : Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.112, Ulysses Press
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“My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.”
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