Terry Mancour Quotes

#1. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.

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#2. Once upon a time, in a tiny village called Talry on the bank of the great river Burine, in the Riverlands Barony of Varune, the Duchy of Castal, a Great and Powerful Mage was born unto a common man and his wife. I'll spare you the suspense. It was me.

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#3. without alarming anyone, and

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#4. It's my choices that have gotten me here in the first place," I sighed. "Everyone has to be somewhere," he shrugged. "And where we are is always the result of the steps we've chosen to take.

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#5. you've exceeded expectations for a prince charming pretty much every step of the way." "I still have bad habits," he pointed out. "Leaving my socks on the floor. Waging wholesale slaughter and pillaging innocent worlds. Swearing.

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#6. I didn't think you were interested in her looks," taunted Tyndal, feeling cocky. "I thought you lusted for her mind?" "Well, if the mind happens to have . . . a couple of heavy thoughts like that associated with it, all the better!" Rondal blushed. "She's

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#7. To not give your foe the respect that he is due gives him an opening in your defenses that he can exploit.

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#8. Compared to the great advantage of an endless font of power, a little dark murmuring in my soul was nothing.

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#9. It is the lord's duty to his domain to provide adequate defense for his folk during a time of war or crisis.

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#10. When a woman encounters a man of that quality," Penny continued, solemnly, "she dedicates herself to making herself worthy of him.

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#11. I know, " she said, flatly. "Antimei warned me that you would 'transform' me. I was hoping it would be into a frog, or a racquiel, or perhaps a bear -- I've always wanted to be a bear! Not a 'proper young lady'!" she said, bitterly.

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#12. When a leader you are sworn to respect and obey comes out and simply lies about things you know are untrue, and does it to your face, it is a fundamental betrayal of trust that destroys the peasant/warrior relationship.

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#13. man is not molded from clay . . . he is pounded like hot iron on an anvil.

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#14. Her mother had been slightly less diplomatic. To her I'd always be "that nice barbarian boy.

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#15. temples can wield great power, for they can motivate the masses to ignore self-preservation in the name of a holy cause. They have moral power, as well, ideally. But most are run by petty people with odd ideas about a civil society.

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#16. I hope I won't be eternally damned for that, but then again I've warranted damnation for so much else that one atrocity, more or less, would do little against the weight of my soul in the afterlife.

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#17. the Valley of Boval, where the women and the cows were renowned for their udders.

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