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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: 71
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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When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.
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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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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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 have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.
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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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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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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.
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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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I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.
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I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, but she was still at the age where she believed that if she shut her eyes and buried her head under a shawl then she could not be seen.
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