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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.
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You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved. Homeless cats in particular-with some justification, unfortunately-consider humans their natural enemies. Much ceremony must be observed, and a number of diplomatic feelers put out, before establishing a state of truce.
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My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
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I can't single out one of my books or characters as a favorite. In the same way that I don't have a favorite kidney, my books are organically all part of myself. I might even say that put all together, the books are one ongoing, developing story - which, not coincidentally, happens to be my own lifestory.
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