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Give me a good sharp knife and a good sharp cheese and I'm a happy man.
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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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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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Ser Jaime?" Even in soiled pink satin and torn lace, Brienne looked more like a man in a gown than a proper woman."I am grateful, but...you were well away. Why come back?" A dozen quips came to mind, each crueler than the one before, but Jaime only shrugged. "I dreamed of you," he said.
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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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Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.
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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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When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
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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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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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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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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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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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They are children, Sansa thought. They are silly little girls, even Elinor. They've never seen a battle, they've never seen a man die, they know nothing. Their dreams were full of songs and stories, the way hers had been before Joffrey cut her fathers head off. Sansa pitied them. Sansa envied them.
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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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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
Faith Baldwin
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September 20, 1948
(age 75)
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