"The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you."
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"A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty."
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"He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age."
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"The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps."
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"The only way was forward, whatever lay at the end."
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"Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor."
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"I doubt you can understand the magnitude of the stupidity in your statement"
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"It's never over, al'Thor. The battle's never done."
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"A secret spoken finds wings."
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"If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good."
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"A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight"
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"Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea." He looked at her for a moment. "I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice."
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"I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute."
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"You are as eloquent as ever, Mat," Egwene said dryly. "Do you still have your pet fox?" "I do," Mat said. "He's snuggled up nice and warm."
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"These?" Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. "I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled." He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people."
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"I have never known anyone else," Egwene said to him, "who will work so hard to avoid hard work, Matrim Cauthon."
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"He doesn't know what to make of me," Mat said softly. "How very uncommon. I can't think of anyone else who has reacted that way to you, Mat."
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"Why didn't you guess this would happen?" Elayne demanded. He looked at her, expressionless. One side of his mouth twitched up, then he pulled his hat down, shading his eyepatch. "Light," Elayne said. "You knew. You spent this whole week planning with us, and you knew the entire time you'd throw it out with the dishwater."
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"Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?"
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"The Black Tower stands with the Lion of Andor." -Logain"
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