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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.

Lloyd Alexander

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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
Master
Weighs
Wear
Keeper
Bears
Keepers
Masters
Lightly
Beyond
Crown
Strength
Crowns
Men
Pigs
Harsher
Staff
Pitiless

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