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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
Every
Guided
Compromise
Ambition
Highest
Choose
Virtue
Best
Without

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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
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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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Katherine of Aragon was speaking out for the women of the country, for the good wives who should not be put aside just because their husbands had taken a fancy to another, for the women who walked the hard road between kitchen, bedroom, church and childbirth. For the women who deserved more than their husband's whim.
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...Your trouble, William, is that you have no ambition. You don't see that there is in life only ever one goal.' 'And what is that?' More', George said simply. 'Just more of anything. More of everything.
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There are many sorts of love. And when you love a man who is less than you dreamed, you have to make allowances for the difference between a real man and a dream. Sometimes you have to forgive him. Perhaps you even have to forgive him often. But forgiveness often comes with love.
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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't do anything but think about him. At night I dream of him, all day I wait to see him, and when I do see him my heart turns over and I think I will faint with desire.
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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.
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They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
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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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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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