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under the old laws, an act of violence was a crime against only the victim. If the offender made proper restitution to the victim’s kin, he was absolved of further liabilities. That was no longer enough; Llewelyn would have the man held
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“He wanted to know what I saw in you. I told him..." he paused again, and then continued almost shyly, "that you poured out honor like a fountain, all around you."
"That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion."
"Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.”
― Shards of Honour
"That's weird. I don't feel full of honor, or anything else, except maybe confusion."
"Naturally not. Fountains keep nothing for themselves.”
― Shards of Honour
“Mark, you don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one." "I'm not sure that seems fair." "The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted—but rather, vastly enriched.”
― Miles in Love
― Miles in Love
“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”
― Barrayar
― Barrayar
“He said that permitting private judgments to turn my duty in the smallest matter would be just like getting a little bit pregnant -- that the consequences would very soon get beyond me.”
― Shards of Honour
― Shards of Honour
“the function of the imagination for Chesterton is not to make the notional and theoretical concrete and real as for Newman, but to make settled things strange;”
― G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
― G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
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