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"Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers."
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"If you fail an examination, it means you have not yet master the subject. With diligent study and understanding, you will succeed in passing the exams."
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"For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the rumble of limber wheels along the rutted road through Freehold. There wasn't anything but her and him, and he opened his eyes to look on her face, to fix it in his mind forever."
"The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?"
"When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no doubt. And I didn't. When I woke in the dark under that tree on the road to Leoch, with you sitting on my chest, cursing me for bleeding to death, I said to myself 'Jamie Fraser, for all ye canna see what she looks like, and for all she weights as much as a good draft horse, this is the woman."
"One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough."
"Sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually is known to men, women do it much more often."
"For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I don't live here. Much as I love Scotland, I think it would be inappropriate to express a personal opinion regarding Scottish politics'."
"I'll tell ye, Sassenach; if ever I feel the need to change my manner of employment, I dinna think I'll take up attacking women - it's a bloody hard way to make a living."
"I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful?Wet as a bath sponge and mud to the knees but, aye, it was green enough."
"True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed."
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