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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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Lloyd Chudley Alexander
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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next.
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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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I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death.
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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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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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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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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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