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You can always win points. Winning people’s respect is a lot more important.

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Fanatics, Halt said. Don't you just love 'em?
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Halt Halt, said Gilan stepping out into the open.
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Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.
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After all, he did say you were the issue of an encounter between your father and a traeling hatcha-hatcha dancer. There was a gasp of horror from the crowd. Duncan, smiling thinly, said through gritted teeth: Thank you so much for reminding us all, Anthony.
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I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going to kill you for it, he said cheerfully. Halt smiled grimly. If we lose this battle, he may have to get in line to do it. There'll be a few thousand Temujai cavalrymen in front of him.
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If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?
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Best way then is to be waiting for them to bring Halt and the others out of that prison,” he said, almost to himself. “There’s only one reason I can think of that they might do that,” Umar said. “That’s if they are going to execute them.” Will lookd at him for several seconds before speaking. “Well, that’s a big comfort.
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You're a dead man, Arratay, Jerrel said through clenched teeth. Halt smiled. That's been said before. Yet here I am.
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People will think what they want to, he said quietly. Never take too much notice of it.
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Now, if you two will excuse us, we'll get back to the relatively simple buisness of planning a war, he said. -Baron Arald
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Problems postponed have a habit of solving themselves
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Hunting party, Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. You think? Will said. Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.
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He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really.
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What do you mean, Araluen? Death? Halt made a careless gesture. The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.
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All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.
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Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.
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But I wasn't happy... when I heard you two had assaulted Castle Macindaw with just thirty men,' [said Halt]. 'Thirty-three,' mumbled Horace... The Ranger gave him a withering look. 'Oh, pardon me... three more men does make a lot of difference.
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My freind is the man who gives me a book I aint read.Abraham Linclion
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