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When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

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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.
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Putting
Back
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One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.
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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.
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Often you don't know whether a woman is friend, enemy or lover until it is too late. Sometimes, she is all three.
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If any of these women had been here instead of Nynaeve, the world would have ended.
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Belief and order give strength. Have to clear rubble before you can build.
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Pessimism, she is a fond friend of yours, yes? - That's uncalled for. I barely know her. Mere acquaintances, at best.
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If you have a sword, and the Aielman has his bare hands, it is an even fight. If you're good.
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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
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Rand, maybe that's the answer they give to everybody. Those snake people, I mean. Got to Rhuidean. Maybe we don't have to be here at all.' He did not believe it, but with that fog staring him in the face. ... Rand turned his head to look at him, not speaking. Finally he said, 'They never mentioned Rhuidean to me, Mat.' 'Oh, burn me,' he muttered.
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If you ask the lion to protect from from wolves, you have only chosen to end in one belly instead of another.
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We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.
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You're welcome in my house when this is over. We'll open a cask of Master al'Vere's best brandy. We'll remember those who fell, and we'll tell our children how we stood when the clouds turned black and the world started to die. We'll tell them we stood shoulder to shoulder, and there was just no space for the Shadow to squeeze through.
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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.
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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your guards. You didn't fear I was here to kill you. You looked over your shoulder to see what I was aiming at. That's the most loving gesture I think a man could receive from a woman. Unless you'd like to sit on my knee for a while.
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When there are fish heads and blood in the water, you don't need to see the silverpike to know they are there.
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A spoonful of hope and a cup of despair
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The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.
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