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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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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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I have given my word that only death will take me from you.
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He had taken George, my beloved George, from me. And he had taken my other self: Anne.
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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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...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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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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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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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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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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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One’s lover is one’s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.
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