More from Lois McMaster Bujold

  1. Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.
  2. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
  3. The good face pain. But the great--they embrace it.
  4. Pain hurts, sir. I don't court it.
  5. Don't be afraid. The dead cannot hurt you. They give you no pain, except that of seeing your own death in their faces. And one can face tha…
  6. When a normal ensign looked at his commander, he ought to see a godlike being, not a, a... future subordinate. New ensigns were supposed to…
  7. An honor is not diminished for being shared.
  8. If we shouldn't do it, we shouldn't be able to do it.

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