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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.

Lloyd Alexander

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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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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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.
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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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My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.
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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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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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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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