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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

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Lloyd Alexander
Age: 83 †
Born: 1924
Born: January 30
Died: 2007
Died: May 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Lloyd Chudley Alexander
Life
Price
Heavy
Paid
Glory
Learned
Blood
Much
Weighs
Men
Reckoning

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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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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.
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Eventually, I was sent to Wales and Germany, and after the war, to Paris.
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