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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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