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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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But what a man can do and what a man will do are two different things, he knew.
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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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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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When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.
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Black moleskin gloves covered his hands; the right because it was burned, the left because a man felt half a fool wearing only one glove.
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In King's Landing, there are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces… Every man's a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players." Petyr Baelish
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Who do you think our champion will be today? Have you seen Mace Tyrell's boy? The Knight of Flowers, they call him. Now there's a son any man would be proud to own to. Last tourney, he dumped the Kingslayer on his golden rump, you ought to have seen the look on Cersei's face. I laughed till my sides hurt.
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A man who sees nothing has no use for his eyes, the Mountain declared. Cut them out and give them to your next outrider. Tell him you hope that four eyes might see better than two... and if not, the man after him will have six.
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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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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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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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History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
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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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You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.
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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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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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Love is sweet, dearest Ned, but it cannot change a man's nature. — Lyanna
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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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When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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September 20, 1948
(age 75)
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