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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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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
Knowledge
Hope
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Wisdom

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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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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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Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.
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Who but lovers dream alike?
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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The Prydain Companion is more than a quick reference or handy glossary, though it is all of that as well. Instructive, certainly. But, like any good companion, a pleasure to be with over a long period of time.
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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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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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.
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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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Hope is an essential thread in the fabric of all fantasies, an Ariadne's thread to guide us out of the labyrinth ... Human beings have always needed hope, and surely now more than ever.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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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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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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