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...righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

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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
Dreariness
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Righteousness
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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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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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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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Is there not glory enough in living the days given to us? You should know there is adventure in simply being among those we love and the things we love, and beauty, too.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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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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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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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
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He was a great poet They lamented. No, he was not a great poet, said Theo, He was a good poet, he could have been better. That's the real loss don't you see?
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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