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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
Lloyd Alexander
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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I know that some readers think (The High King) should have ended differently. I cried for three days afterwards.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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