"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

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"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Enemy,

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell, British Author

Enemy, Insincerity, Language, Words

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Ron Wood, British Musician

Enemy,

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

Enemy, Man, Poor, Right

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

Enemy, Evil

"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."

Alexis Carrel, French Scientist

Enemy, Enemies, Mankind

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."

Camille Paglia, American Author

Enemy, Enemies, Will

"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

Gene Fowler, American Journalist

Enemy, Mind, Needs

"I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him."

John Buford, American Soldier

Enemy, Nothing

"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Enemy, Friend, Betrayal, Truth

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"Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field."

Leadership

"Those with the least always lose the most in war."

Choice

"One day you're something, so promising and full o' dares, so big the world's too small a place to hold you. Then, 'fore you know it, you're old, and you realise all them things you had in mind you'll never get to. All them doors you felt too big to fit through have already shut. Only one left open and it leads to nothing but nothing."

Perspective

"Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to."

Fate

"Bang! The end of his little finger, now, and three more pieces of the rest. His middle finger was down to the knuckle, almost. Severard stared, his eyes with with horror, his breath coming short, fast gasps. Shock, amazement, stunned terror. Glokta leaned down to his ear. 'I hope you weren't planning to take up the violin, Severard. You'll be lucky if you can play a fucking gong by the time we're done here."

Learning

"You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.'That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. 'Well. Facts are facts."

Creativity

"What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

"Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind."

"The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them."

"Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind."

"I can do nothing with the enemy save observe him."

"Enemy: A friend whose mask has fallen."

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"Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field."

"Those with the least always lose the most in war."

"Every war carries within it the seeds of the next."

"Remember, though, that you are the king's observer, not the king's champion."

"When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out."

"Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near to us, who look as we do, who speak the same words, and all the while we know as little of the reasons why as does the dust we return to."

"You look especially beautiful this morning, Monza.'That brought a smile to the corner of her mouth. The corner he couldn't see. 'Well. Facts are facts."

"What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"