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Beauty holds more worth than gold.

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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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Beauty
Holds
Gold

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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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Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.
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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
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If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.
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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.
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If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know.
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Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.
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Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
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I grew up around strong women weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
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These? Mat said, gesturing to his coat and shirt. I really have no idea. They were just down there. I'm completely baffled. He had been very pleased to learn that Seanchan guards-for all their stoic expressions and too-straight backs-responded to bribes like other people.
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Come to think of it, an Aes Sedai would probably follow a man off a cliff, too, if only to explain to him - in detail - all the things he was doing incorrectly in the way he went about killing himself.
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Caution once forgotten could be forgotten once too often.
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If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
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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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Tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die.
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Prophecy is most dangerous when you try to make it happen... The Pattern weaves itself around you, but when you try to weave it, even you cannot hold it.
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The best way to avoid trouble is to make sure no one wants to trouble you.
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Men! Too blind to see what a stone could see, and too stubborn to be trusted to think for themselves.
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Demandred blocked Lan's attack but he breathed hoarsely. Who are you? Demandred whispered again. No one of this Age has such skill. Asmodean? No, no. He couldn't have fought me like this. Lews Therin? It is you behind that face, isn't it? I am just a man, Lan whispered. That is all I have ever been.
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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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