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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?

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Good
Since
Half
Language
Speak
May
Languages
Wells
Dozen
Well
Latin
Nothing
French

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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 wanted the heat and the sweat and the passion of a man that I could love and trust. And I wanted to give myself to him: not for advantage, but for desire.
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... all that that I learn just teaches me that I know nothing.
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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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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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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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...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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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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I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future I am going to make it happen.
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