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Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Nothing
Fortune
Courage
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Wheel
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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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When it's done, it's done. And no one will know until it's done.
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Plainly, she is quite besotted by him,... a girl, a young girl, and she is falling in love for the first time in her life. ...little Kitty Howard at a loss, stumbling in her speech, blushing like a rose, thinking of someone else and not herself is to see a girl become a woman.
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En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.
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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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Anyone can attract a man. The trick is to keep him.
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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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