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"Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception."
"I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?"
"Dragons were dangerous in the sky. Of course, they were dangerous on the ground too. Just less dangerous. In the same way that a sword is less dangerous so long as it's pointed at someone else."
"Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself."
"Holding your brain hostage against your own stupidity - that was how to get stuff done."
"There were a group of people before the Ascension known as the Astalsi. They claimed that each person was born with a certain finite amount of ill luck. And so, when an unfortunate event happened, they thought themselves blessed-thereafter, their lives could only get better."
"Everything is a contest. All dealings among men are a contest in which some will succeed and others fail. And some are failing quite spectacularly."
"I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what it sounded like."
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"Reading is an activity of civilized beings."
"Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!"
"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
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