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“Knowledge is what shapes us, little brothers,” he told them, for once his smile was absent, his tone entirely serious. “It makes us who we are. What we know informs everything we do and every decision we make.
“Times past, brother. Can’t live in ’em. Just learn from ’em.”
“War is always an adventure to those who’ve never seen it.”
What a burden it is to have an intelligent daughter. It goes against nature for wit to be bound up in so much beauty.
“You expect the whole Realm to believe this nonsense?” “People always believe what they want to, true or not. Remember the Aspect massacre, all those Deniers and suspected Deniers slaughtered in the riots on the basis of mere rumour. Give them the right lie and they’ll believe it.”
Men who love themselves hate those who would dim their glory.
“An axe without a blade is just a stick.”
“A fool is any man who doesn’t think he’s a fool.
