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Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

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"Why?" Dallben interrupted. "In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

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I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

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Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.

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Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.

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By all means," cried the bard, his eyes lighting up. "A Fflam to the rescue! Storm the castle! Carry it by assault! Batter down the gates!" "There's not much of it left to storm," said Eilonwy. "Oh?" said Fflewddur, with disappointment. "Very well, we shall do the best we can.

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Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

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Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her.

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Most of us are called on to perform tasks far beyond what we believe we can do. Our capabilities seldom match our aspirations, and we are often woefully unprepared. To this extent, we are all Assistant Pig-Keepers at heart.

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When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.
If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are, Annlaw agreed. Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.

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This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

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I intend to follow the path of virtue. It will not be overcrowded.

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That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

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If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today.

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Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But stand proudly to it. Metal's worthless till it is shaped and tempered. More labor than luck. Face the pounding, don't fear the proving; and you'll stand well against any hammer and anvil.

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And so they lived many happy years, and the promised tasks were accomplished. Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

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Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

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Fantasy, by its power to move us so deeply, to dramatize, even melo-dramatize, morality, can be one of the most effective means of establishing a capacity for adult values.

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Laws assure animals of protection – formally, officially, set down in black and white. But in the long run, the best protection is the human heart.

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We're neither good nor evil. We're simply interested in things as they are.

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You are the oaken staff I lean on, Taran said. More than that. He laughed. You are the whole sturdy tree, and a true warrior.
Coll, instead of beaming, looked wryly at him. Do you mean to honor me? he asked. Then say, rather, I am a true grower of turnips, and a gatherer of apples. No warrior whatever, save that I am needed thus for a while. My garden longs for me as much as I long for it.

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She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

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A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

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"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed," Medwyn continued, "nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."

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She has given you something of value: the truth in her heart.

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