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"Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord."
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"Ignorance leads to low income."
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"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
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"Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people."
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"Where there is less pain, there is also less pay."
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"The food we were given was no more than eatable, but the patron was not mean about drink; he allowed us two litres of wine a day each, knowing that if a plongeur is not given two litres he will steal three."
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"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
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"The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow."
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"Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman. Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity. If she be all tenderness, she will die. If she survive, the tenderness will either be crushed out of her, or-and the outward semblance is the same-crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more."
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"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."
Mortality


"The little man gave the big one a look. One of his eyes was green, one was black, and both were cool."
Appearance


"And it's great to have all these readers and fans who, for the most part, are very nice people, saying they love the books and the TV show. But there are so many of them and it just doesn't end. Oh, and 'selfies'! If I could clap my hands and burn out every camera phone in the world, I swear I'd do it!"
Fame


"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
Battle


"Perhaps you should speak more softly to me, then. Monsters are dangerous beasts, and just now kings seem to be dying like flies."
Conflict


"Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only thing anyone will remember, is how good they were. That's my main concern, and always will be."
Success


"I crossed a thousand leagues to come to you, and lost the best part of me along the way. Don't tell me to leave."
Love


"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."
Courage


"Never speak of defeat before battle."
Courage


"Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it."
Honor
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