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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
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Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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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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If the pull of the outside world is strong, there is also a pull towards the human. The cat may disappear on its own errands, but sooner or later, it returns once again for a little while, to greet us with its own type of love.
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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
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Find what you want. I will find you.
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There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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