Robert Jordan - The Dragon Reborn (1991)

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The arrogance of men never ceases to amaze me. You all think everything has to do with you, and every woman has to desire you.

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To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest.

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Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.

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Masema. That had been his name. He'd earned his sword on his fifteenth birthday. His father had been so proud. It's over, then, he thought, unable to keep his eyes open. He closed them, falling as if through an endless void. Did I do well, Father, or did I fail?

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I came to bloody rescue you. Burn me if I expected to be greeted as if I had come to steal a pie.

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Why, that's like being told to go up in the hills to find lions, only you do not know whether there are any lions, but if there are, they may be hunting you, and they may be disguised as bushes. Oh, and if you find any lions, try not to let them eat you before you can tell where they are. -Elayne

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"A bloody hero. Thom, if I ever look like acting the hero again, you kick me."
"And what would you have done differently?"
"Just kick me!"

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Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they claim they're well too soon, with the same result.

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Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

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Death comes for us all. We can only choose how to face it when it comes.

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Do you know how to unite the people behind you, Child Carridin? The quickest way? Loose a lion - a rabid lion - in the streets. And when panic grips the people, once it has turned their bowels to water, calmly tell them you will deal with it. Then you kill it, and order them to hang the carcass up where everyone can see. Before they have time to think, you give another order, and it will be obeyed. And if you continue to give orders, they will continue to obey, for you will be the one who saved them, and who better to lead?

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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

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One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.

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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.

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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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Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.

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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

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Men fight when they should run, and fools fight when they should run. But I had no need to say it twice.

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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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Nimble finger and nimble wits will take you a good deal further than a sword and muscles. Sharp eyes help as well, but fortunately, I have these things.

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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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If you can't hide what you are going to do, do it so everybody thinks you are a fool.

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Once you decide to gut a fish, there's no use waiting till it rots.

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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.

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Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

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