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The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.
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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do it, but sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
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How people see you first is what they hold hardest in their minds. It is the way of the world. You can step down from a throne, and even if you behave like a farmer in a pigsty, some part in each of them will remember that you did descend from a throne. But if they see only a young man first, a country man, they will resent him stepping up to his throne later, whatever his right, whatever his power
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Victors write history. Had I taken the Stone of Tear, history would have shown I was born on the slopes of Dragonmount, of a woman never touched by a man, and that the heavens opened up in radiance to herald my coming. The sort of thing they say about you, now.
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The best way to apologize to a man is to trip him in a secluded part of the garden.
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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said they have about equal brains most of the time. Sometimes the mule is smarter.
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The gall of the man. The utter gall! Detaining us! Restricting us!
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No man should have another man's voice in his head.
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If the world is ending, a woman will want time to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take time to to tell a man something he's done wrong.
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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want; a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
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You cannot tell a man he has the power to make the earth shake, then expect him to walk small.
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." — Ingtar Shinowa —
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Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.
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Kill a man who needs killing, and sometimes others pay for it. The question is, was it worth doing it anyway? There's always a balance, you know. Good and evil. Light and Shadow. We would not be human if there wasn't a balance.
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The louder a man tells you he's honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.
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... but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.
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Light! Two [wives]! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation.
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A man must know when to retreat from a woman, but a wise man knows that sometimes he must stand and face her.
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"I once saw a man hanging from a cliff," he said slowly. "The brink was crumbling beneath his fingers, and the only thing near enough to grasp was a tuft of grass, a few long blades with roots barely clinging to the rock. The only chance he had of climbing back up on the cliff. So he grabbed it." His abrupt chuckle held no mirth. "He had to know it would pull free."
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That man,' Elayne said, 'is never where he needs to be.' 'And yet,' Perrin said, 'he always arrives there eventually.
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An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve.
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I have heard it said that a man caught between his wife and a Wise One often wishes for a dozen old enemies to fight instead. A man caught between a wife and three Wise Ones, and the wife a Wise One herself, must consider trying to slay Sightblinder.
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A ship is alive, and he is like a man, with a true man's heart. Treat him well and care for him properly, and he will fight for you against the worst sea. He will fight to keep you alive even after the sea has long since given him his own deathstroke. Neglect him, though, ignore the small warnings he gives of danger, and he will drown you in a flat sea beneath a cloudless sky.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
E. W. Howe
Robert Jordan
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Born:
October 17, 1948
Died:
September 16, 2007
(aged 58)
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