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Kings can only use their best tools.

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T. H. White
Age: 57 †
Born: 1906
Born: May 29
Died: 1964
Died: January 17
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Science Fiction Writer
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Bombay
Terence Hanbury White
T. H. White
Tim White
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Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
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It is good to put your life in other people's hands.
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Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.
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Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.
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The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.
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He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessing, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas.
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We cannot build the future by avenging the past.
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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist.
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But they woke him with words, their cruel bright weapons.
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He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.
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You run a grave risk, my boy, said the magician, of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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Cavall came simply, and gave him his heart and soul.
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Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.
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Those who lived by the sword were forced to die by it.
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Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.
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If people reach perfection they vanish, you know.
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I am an anarchist, like any other sensible person. ~ Merlyn
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