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“There's something I've noticed, sir,' he said, 'ever since we joined up with you in Spain.'

'What's that?'

'That we're always outnumbered and surrounded.'

Sharpe had been listening, not to Harper, but to the day itself. 'Notice anything?' he asked.

'That we're surrounded and outnumbered, sir?”
― Bernard Cornwell

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“You’re the son of a king,’ I told him, ‘and one day you might be a king yourself. Life and death will be your gifts, so learn how to give them, boy.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne

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“Five things make a man happy,” I told him, “a good ship, a good sword, a good hound, a good horse, and a woman.” “Not a good woman?” Finan asked, amused. “They’re all good,” I said, “except when they’re not, and then they’re better than good.”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Pagan Lord

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“Love's madness, swinging from ecstasy to despair in one wild second.”
― Bernard Cornwell

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“I shook my head. ‘Killing isn’t woman’s work,’ I said. ‘Why not?’ she asked. ‘We give life, can’t we take it too?”
― Bernard Cornwell, The Empty Throne

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