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After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
Lloyd Alexander
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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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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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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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun
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At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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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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By all means, cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates! There's not much of it left to storm, said Eilonwy. Oh? said Fflewddur, with disappointment. Very well, we shall do the best we can.
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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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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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Who but lovers dream alike?
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