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"My knight may not wear a coat of shining armor, but his code of glowing honor will never fail to protect us both from evils far worse than any fire-breathing dragon."
"To be a dwarf in peace is more honourable than to be a giant in war!"
"The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction."
"Don't start a fight if you can't duke it out. Either win or concede but whatever you do, don't have others fight for you."
"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."
"It was easy to make fun of the marines when they weren't listening. In Holden's navy days, making fun of jarheads was as natural as cussing. But four marines had died getting him off the Donnager, and three of them had made a conscious decision to do so. Holden promised himself that he'd never make fun of them again."
"No, like worldly contempt, worldly honor is a whirlpool, a play of confused forces, an illusory moment in the flux of opinions. It is a sense-deception, as when a swarm of insects at a distance seem to the eye like one body; a sense-deception, as when the noise of the many at a distance seems to the ear like a single voice."
"Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it."
Explore more quotes by Alexander Pope
"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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