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Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.

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Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

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If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)

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Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood understands, not days and years and centuries. For men, time is a river. We are trapped in its flow, hurtling from past to present, always in the same direction. The lives of trees are different. They root and grow and die in one place, and that river does not move them. The oak is the acorn, the acorn is the oak.

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A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

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Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

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Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes.

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Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked.

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And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

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The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

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Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?

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In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

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A man does not need to be a wizard to know truth from falsehood, not if he has eyes. You need only learn to read a face. Look at the eyes. The mouth. The muscles here, at the corners of the jaw, and here, where the neck joins the shoulders.

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There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

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Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?

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All that Syrio Forel had taught her went racing through her head. Swift as a deer. Quiet as shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Strong as a bear. Fierce as a wolverine. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Then man who fears losing has already lost. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Fear cuts deeper than swords.

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My reading of history has shown me that simply 'being a good man' is not enough. That there are many kings who are good men and yet bad kings. And even good kings sometimes make disasterous decisions. So government is complex, politics is complex.

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No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul.

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I dreamed... in the black of night a man asks all the questions he dare not ask by daylight. For me, the past years, only one question has remained. Why would the gods take my eyes and my strength, yet condemn me to linger on so long, frozen and forgotten? What use could they have for an old done man like me?... I remember, Sam. I still remember. Remember what? Dragons, Aemon whispered.

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Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. — Lyanna

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Once a man has seen a dragon in flight, let him stay home and tend his garden in content, someone had written once, for this wide world has no greater wonder." Tyrion scratched at his scar and tried to recall the author's name.

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If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him—valar morghulis. — Jaqen H'ghar, A Clash of Kings

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You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

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I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

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I knew a man once who told me that I smiled at the wrong things." "Do you? "Only by the light of those who smile at nothing.

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This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man gets only what he earns. You're no ranger, Jon, only a green boy with the smell of summer still on you.

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No man threatens His Grace in the presence of the Kingsguard. Tyrion Lannister raised an eyebrow. I am not threatening the king, ser, I am educating my nephew. Bronn, Timett, the next time Ser Boros opens his mouth, kill him. The dwarf smiled. Now that was a threat, ser. See the difference?

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Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

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