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Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'.

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Tamora Pierce
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: December 13
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It's always better to attack than to defend, Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
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And if they don't believe us, I can give them the ghost eyes, you can go all big and threatening, Farmer can do his cracknob simpleton, and my lady can don her nobleness. We'll do all right.
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She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday.
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What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
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Hello, he greeted her cheerfully. You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone said what we try to learn in here? Alanna said the first thing that came to her lips. The only thing I know is that I jump when I'm told to and I have no free time.
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There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.
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Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it George Cooper
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Didn't they realize that the only way to change things was to act?
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If you have to hit--hit low.
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Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.
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Why, I’m just as true and honest as dirt. And I’m even more charming than dirt.
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Why does he speak of them that way? The crow-man wanted to know. They are humans, just like he is. I don't think he sees them as just like him. Ally explained. He is foolish then, said Nawat. There are more raka than Bronaus.
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Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
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You know, ogres only sound stupid. Most are pretty smart. And it's a shallow person who judges anyone by the way they sound. I'm so shallow I'm surprised I don't reflect myself.
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When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.
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Someday I must read this scholar Everyone. He seems to have written so much--all of it wrong.
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Men don't think and differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.
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Horses are calmer people. They also don't throw things at cats.
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Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that he gave this things to his friend Kel. His dreamy-eyed gazes, poems, and fits of passionate melancholy were for Uline. It was hard not to resent the older girl.
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