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May Your Swords Stay Sharp! - Lan Pendragon

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Robert Jordan
Age: 58 †
Born: 1948
Born: October 17
Died: 2007
Died: September 16
Author
Military Officer
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Charleston
South Carolina
James Oliver Rigney
Jr.
Pendragon
Swords
Sharp
Stay
May

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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.
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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.
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My mother says men are different from us. She says we want to be in love, but only with the one we want a man needs to be in love, but he will love the first woman to tie a string to his heart. - Egwene, speaking to Elayne
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Perrin, my father says a general can take care of the living or weep for the dead, but he cannot do both.
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He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.
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Yes, I'm alive, Mat said. I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
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In Shinear, a woman [is] safe anywhere, any time-except from Trollocs and Myrddraal, of course-and any man [will] die to see it so.
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Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.
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A cat for a hat, or a hat for a cat. But nothing for nothing.
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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
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Has anyone ever told you that you should wear a hat? It would fit the missing eye quite well.' -Kathana to Mat
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