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I would be very, very uncomfortable at teaching, at dreaming to teach, people things.

Philippa Gregory

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Philippa Gregory
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: January 9
Novelist
Writer
Kenya's capital
Kate Wedd
Uncomfortable
Teaching
Teach
Dream
Things
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People
Dreaming

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the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it
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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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He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?
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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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