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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.
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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If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.
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He will not succeed in this, Taran said. Somehow, we must find a way to escape. We dare not lose hope. I agree absolutely, Fflewddur answered. Your general idea is excellent it's only the details that are lacking.
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There is more honor in a field well plowed than in a field steeped in blood.
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Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
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Keep out of this, Lucian said. I'm not smiting anybody. You're showing mercy. Catch-a-Tick nodded. That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
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-He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful. -It was stupid.
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
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If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
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-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.
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The dear girl, I fear, may be contemplating some alarming, disruptive perhaps dangerous project. In which case, I would naturally do all in my power to keep her from any such rash or foolhardy enterprise – unless she wished me to accompany her.
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I loved all the world's mythologies.
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...alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
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