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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
Speak
May
Languages
Wells
Dozen
Well
Latin
Nothing
French
Good
Since
Half
Language

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But I don't forget and I don't forgive.
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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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You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.
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He is my brother. She is my sister. Come what will, they are my kin.
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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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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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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 would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.
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But Anne, do you love him? I asked curiously. The curve of her hood hid all but the corner of her smile. I am a fool to own it, but I am in a fever for his touch.
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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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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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