"I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax"

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Source : "Social Policy Protocol (Confidence Motion)". Debate in the House of Commons (Column 654), publications.parliament.uk. July 23, 1993.

Dennis Skinner

#Queens Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Income Quotes

“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
“If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.”
“You can't get more appreciation than that, to be elected by the fans. That's the ultimate, really.”
“Marriage is like a fine aged wine. It has to endure its Time of Fermenting before its full-bodied Flavor and Bouquetcan be appreciate.”
“The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy." But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.”
“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”

Source : Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern (2010). “An Introduction to Historical Linguistics”, p.18, Oxford University Press
“She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that only she can recognize in a mirror. Ideal and idealistic in that shiny dark hair! People fall in love with her. She is a woman I donâ€™t know well enough to hold in my wing, if writers have wings, to harbour for the rest of my life.”
“Forgiveness indeed heals memories”

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