“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

— Elizabeth I of England

To Sir Edward Dyer, as quoted in Apophthegms (1625) by Francis Bacon

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Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 … 1533–1603

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