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Queen Victoria1819–1901

Queen Victoria on failure

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

Queen Victoria

Said to Arthur Balfour at Windsor during “Black Week” (December 1899), as recorded in Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, vol. 3 (1931)

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