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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Sings
Delight
Bird
Desire
Easy

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I am too dark in my heart tonight.
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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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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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To save my son, I would plot with the devil himself.
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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 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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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
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