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Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle.

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Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

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Never speak of defeat before battle.

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Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

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I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.""Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?""How else? Though not...more

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...Prophecy is like a treacherous woman. She takes your member in her mouth, and you moan with the pleasure of it and think, how sweet, how fine, how ...more

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The looters comes with the carrion crows after every battle.

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War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of battle. For some, that one taste is enough to brea...more

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Fat men take a cushion with them wherever they go.

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It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to wa...more

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The hard truths are the ones to hold tight. - Old Bear

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Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled betwe...more

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He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wron...more

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The day will come when you need them to respect you, even fear you a little. Laughter is poison to fear.