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“Sometimes that which is most precious can be found where you would least expect to.”
“The definition of insanity, Your Majesty, is to perform the same action repeatedly and expect different results.”
In the courts of the Empire, there were no innocents—there were only fools and those who took advantage of fools, as the saying went.
Smiles hid daggers
A bard must know history so she does not repeat it. She tells the tales but is never part of them. She watches but remains above what she sees. She inspires passions in others and rules her own.
she would rather have a leader who found it difficult to lead than one who found it easy.”
History is full of lessons to be learned if one cares to listen.”
She hated his arrogance, that he assumed he knew what it meant to be a king and what it meant to be a man, as if he knew anything of either.
