"Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes."
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"In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping."
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"There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet."
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"To fight the raven you may make alliance with the serpent until the battle is done."
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"A jealous wife is like a hornets' nest in your mattress"
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"Fantasy is an area where it is possible to talk about right and wrong, good and evil, with a straight face. In mainstream fiction and even in a good deal of mystery, these things are presented as simply two sides of the same coin. Never really more than a matter of where you happen to be standing."
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"There are things worth fighting for."
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"To anger an Aes Sedai is to put your head in a hornets' nest."
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"A crafty enemy will set a weak ambush you are meant to break through. Confident because you have dealt with the threat, your guard relaxed, you walk into the second, stronger ambush."
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"Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so masterly at the dance of battlefields. At their core, many battle tactics were simple. Avoid being flanked, meet heavy force with pikes, infantry with a well-trained line, channelers with other channelers. And yet, the finesse of it...the little details...these took centuries to master. No man from this Age had lived long enough to learn the details with such care."
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"Always leave a way out, unless you really want to find out how hard a man can fight when he’s nothing to lose."
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"What can't be changed must be endured."
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"Thus is our treaty written; thus is agreement made. Thought is the arrow of time; memory never fades. What was asked is given; the price is paid."
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"A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools if we live long enough."
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"If you pursue two hares, both will escape you."
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"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a wind rose in the Mountains of Mist. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."
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"Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build."
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"Sometimes, pain is all that lets you know you're alive."
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"You're not asking me to guess the mind of Matrim Cauthon, are you?" Elayne asked. "I'm convinced that Mat only acts simple so that people will let him get away with more."
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"A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling."
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