Terry Pratchett
Author
"Never build a dungeon you wouldn't be happy to spend the night in yourself. The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that."
Dungeons quotes
Dungeons
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosopher, Writer, Composer
"One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?"
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political Activist, Diplomat
"A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette."
Robert Kiyosaki
Businessman, Author
"The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
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"Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold."
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"Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil."
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"There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?"
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"How clear everything becomes when you look from the darkness of a dungeon."
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"No, I do my torturing in the dungeon like any other respectable castle owner."
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