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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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Philippa Gregory
Age: 71
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
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Anything
Ever
Everything
William
Life
George
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Simply
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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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