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"Battles are all about strategy, and strategy pivots on priorities. Since my priorities were Prince Jalan, Prince Jalan, and Prince Jalan, with 'looking good a distant fourth, I took the opportunity to resume running away. I find that the main thing about success is the ability to act in the moment. A hero attacks in the moment; a good coward runs in it. The rest of the world waits for the next moment and ends up as crow food."
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"There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it."
"There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone."
"To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I'm only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I'm going to err towards beating you with this stick."
"A sensible man may fear certain possibilities, but don't let fear turn possibility into certainty."
"Humanity can be divided into madmen and cowards. My personal tragedy is in being born into a world where sanity is held to be a character flaw."
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