"A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly."
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"This much have I learned: A man's life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning."
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"There is truth in all things, if you understand them well."
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"Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography."
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"No, no," said Taran slowly, "It would be folly to think of attacking them." He smiled quickly at Fflewddur. "The bards would sing of us," he admitted, "but we'd be in no position to appreciate it."
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"You know how chickens are, imagining the world coming to an end one moment, then pecking corn the next."
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"-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid."
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"Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel."
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"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to."
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"Go back' Taran shouted at the top of his voice.'Have you lost your wits?' Eilonwy, for it was she, half-halted. She had tucked her plaited hair under a leather helmet. The Princess of Llyr smiled cheerfully at him. 'I understand you're upset,' she shouted back, 'but that's no cause to be rude.' She galloped on. For a time, Taran could not believe he had really seen her."
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"If I fret over tomorrow, I'll have little joy today."
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"If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled."
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"How easy it is to think well of ourselves. Until the moment is upon us, we can never be certain."
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"I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all."
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"Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before."
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"For Wayfarers still journeying, for Wanderers at rest."
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"All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true."
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"Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting."
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"Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging."
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"Find what you want. I will find you."
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