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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun

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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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Two
Live
Cheaply
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Cats
Owners
Twice
Cat

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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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Once you have courage to look upon evil, seeing it for what it is and naming it by its true name, it is powerless against you, and you can destroy it.
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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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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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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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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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