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Wealth means nothing at all if you do not know, to the last penny, what your fortune is. You might as well be poor if you do not know what you have.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
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Kenya's capital
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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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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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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We might, either of us, be Queen of England and yet we'll always be nothing to our family.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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...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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Good god what men can do to their brains when their cocks are hard.
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Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.
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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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...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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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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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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For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.
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We're going' Anne said firmly. So soon?' Percy pleaded. 'But stars come out at night.' Then they fade at dawn', Anne replied. 'This star needs to veil herself in darkness.
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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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