Anne Leonard Quotes

#1. She was too interested in getting married to waste her time on someone ineligible. Infatuation made for odd behavior, though. And love and marriage did not often coincide where wealth and power were.

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#2. Dancing is the first step to falling in love, after all.

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#3. A man who would kill himself rather than face capture was a man who had a cause. Or a man who was afraid of what his own masters would do to him for having botched the job.

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#4. Time can trap you, she thought, wind around things as transparent as glass and strong as steel and before you know it you're caught. Nothing moves. It mattered terribly but was unchangeable.

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#5. It did not escape him that he was still a young man, one who had been protected from loss and pain. If loss was coming, he had to face it instead of relying on the luxury of temper.

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#6. Men who seek power eventually overreach themselves, you know that.

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#7. The art of power, my love, is making people give you something for nothing and think they are being rewarded in the process.

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#8. Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

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