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Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

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Lois McMaster Bujold
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 2
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
Ohio
Rewards
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Miles
Harder
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Dictum
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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This is important! But you have to stay absolutely cool. I may be completely off-base, and panicking prematurely. I don't think so. I think you're panicking post-maturely. In fact, if you were panicking any later it would be practically posthumously. I've been panicking for days.
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A hundred objective measurements didn't sum the worth of a garden only the delight of its users did that.
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The gods give no gifts without hooks embedded.
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But pain seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
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If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.
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I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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Only the saints would joke so about the gods, because it was either joke or scream, and they alone knew it was all the same to the gods.
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Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.
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When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Our children change us... whether they live or not.
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.
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When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
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Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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I'd storm heaven for you, if I knew where it was.
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I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.
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