Words to Live By

Official portrait of Britain’s Queen, painted by Australian-born artist Ralph Heimans. 2012.

“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”

Queen Elizabeth II in her Christmas broadcast for 1991.

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