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

— Lloyd Alexander , The Chronicles of Prydain

Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 3 (Taran)

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American children's writer 1924–2007

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