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

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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 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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Paradoxically, in fantasy for young people I was able to express my own deepest feelings and attitudes more than I had ever done in writing for adults.
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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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What! I don't care about being a princess! And since I'm already a young lady, how else could I behave? That's like asking a fish not to swim! ~Princess Eilonwy, daughter of Angharad, daughter of Regat, of the Royal house of Llyr
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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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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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.
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