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You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise...guided by your own virtue and highest ambition

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Without
Every
Guided
Compromise
Ambition
Highest
Choose
Virtue
Best

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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.
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If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
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The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, fathers beheading sons. They are a house which has to have blood, and they will shed their own if they have no other enemy.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.
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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.
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But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
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I shall be dark and French and fashionable and difficult. And you shall be sweet and open and English and fair. What a pair we shall be! What man can resist us?
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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...you have to have faith that you are doing God's will. Sometimes you will not understand. Sometimes you will doubt. But if you are doing God's will, you can't be wrong, you can't go wrong.
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Yes, but either way, shamed or not, I shall be Queen of England, and this is the last time you will sit in my presence.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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I wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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