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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.

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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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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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Fantasy, in addition to being great storytelling, moves us at some unique and profound level. It has, I think, the power of mythology, or ancient dreams we have always and forever shared. In it, we find our real world and our real selves.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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