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The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
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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Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
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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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For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man.
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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.
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