Artemas

“Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

“I believe in justice, as long as I'm holding a knife at the throat of the judge.”
― Matthew Stover, Heroes Die

“Discount all praise by nine-tenths, since a king draws flatterers as offal does flies.”
― L Sprague De Camp

“A youth loathes nothing more than his own callowness. Experience is his object. Experience, however ghastly, for the lad longs before all for the lined face and chiseled squint of the veteran. Even his submissions to terror, the very shit with which he paints his thighs under fire is trophy to him; he points it out to his comrades, laughing in the aftercourse of action as if it were a decoration for valour, for it makes him a salt, a veteran, an old hand.”
― Steven Pressfield, Last of the Amazons