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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
Men
Reckoning
Life
Price
Heavy
Paid
Glory
Learned
Blood
Much
Weighs

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