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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
“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
“There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.”
― Komarr
― Komarr
“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
“We did it," he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. "Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?”
― Diplomatic Immunity
― Diplomatic Immunity
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