Patricia Wrede Short Quotes

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Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.

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How can you know it's the best, if you don't learn about anything else?

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Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

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He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.

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You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters.

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I'd much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something

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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

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In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

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Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

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Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

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Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to.

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You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

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Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

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Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

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He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

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