Christopher Paolini - Eldest (2005)

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Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

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I warn you, Eragon, beware of whom you fall in love with, for fate seems to have a morbid interest in our family.

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He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.

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Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

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Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway...

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Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

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A negative outlook is more of a handicap than any physical injury.

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The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

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I know what we do is right but right doesn't always mean easy.

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She gave him a wan smile. "And then you came, Eragon. You and Saphira. After hope had deserted me and I was about to be taken to Galbatorix in Uru'baen, a Rider appeared to rescue me. A rider and a dragon!" "And Morzan's son," he said. "Both of Morzan's sons." "Describe it how you will, it was such an improbable rescue, I occasionally think that I did go mad and that I've imagined everything since.

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Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now.

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When you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it.

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Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They'll not be able to once you lop off their heads.

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When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

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The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

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