Daniel Loureiro

I will be good.

on being shown a chart of the line of succession, 11

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

in a letter to King Leopold of Belgium, April 4, 1848

We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.

on the Boer War during ‘Black Week’, December 1899

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.

of Gladstone

We are not amused.

attributed, in Caroline Holland Notebooks of a Spinster Lady (1919) ch. 21, 2 January 1900

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