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What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

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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
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May
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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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In the race of men is much greed and envy but of truth, little.
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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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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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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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You have a point, said Fronto, and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.
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My parents were horrified when I told them I wanted to be an author.
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If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.
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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.
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