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“The man had not said anything, but it appeared, from what the monks had said, that he had single handedly held off six routiers in an ambush that had killed their men-at-arms. I was used to men that bragged all day - bragged about the women they bedded, bragged about knife fights in taverns - yet this man didn't even show his weapons. He seldom smiled, and he never, that I saw, displayed temper. He was courteous to every soul he met, ready with a blessing, and he never cursed or blasphemed.

He was like a paladin from the chansons.

I worked very hard to please him.”
― Christian Cameron, The Ill-Made Knight

“I said, 'Then why don't we yield now, and make an end? There would be fewer cities burned and fewer men slain in that way. Why do we go on fighting? Why not merely lie down and let it come? They say it is easier to drown if you don't struggle.'

'For an idea,' Ambrosius said, beginning again to play with the dragon arm ring; but his eyes were smiling in the firelight, and I think that mine smiled back at him. 'Just for an idea, for an ideal, for a dream.'

I said, 'A dream may be the best thing to die for.”
― Rosemary Sutcliff, Sword at Sunset

“The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.”
― Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx