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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.

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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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 family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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Evil cannot be conquered by wishing.
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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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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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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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Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.
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Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.
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And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.
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