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“How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?"
Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.”
― A Clash of Kings
Jaime reached for the flagon to refill his cup. "So many vows...they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It's too much. No matter what you do, you're forsaking one vow or the other.”
― A Clash of Kings
“I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.”
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“Tolerance isn't about not having beliefs. It's about how your beliefs lead you to treat people who disagree with you.”
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“Tolerance only for those who agree with you is no tolerance at all.”
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“If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.”
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
― Tender is the Night / The Last Tycoon
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