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Jordan's mother says learning to ride a mule helps deal with a man. She jokes that men and mules have about equal brains most of the time. He notes that men often hide sickness until it forces extra work for women. He says a man without trust has no life, and that men forget but never forgive.

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Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are.

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Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

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A man without trust is a man without life.

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Better to have one woman on your side than ten men.

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A man should never give promises in bed.

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No man should have another man's voice in his head.

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The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

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A man who will not die to save a woman is no man.

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Waiting turns men into bears in a barn, and women into cats in a sack.

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A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.

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A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

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The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy.

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There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

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The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.

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Facing them (men) with knives and spears was much easier than loving them, much easier.

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But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.

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Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women…

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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…

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Stopping a man from what he wants to do is like taking a sweet from a child. Sometimes you have to do…

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Advice!Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.-…

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The lions sing and the hills take flight. The moon by day, and the sun by night. Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw…

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Men," Thom murmured. "Men who shook the pillars of heaven and rocked the world on its foundations." He shook his head. "It…

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She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are…

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Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a…

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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.…

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As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same…

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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly.…

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When you saw me with a dagger in hand - as if to throw at you - you didn't call for your…

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Violence harms the one who does it as much as the one who receives it. You could cut down a tree with…

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Yes...how else could Demandred explain the skill of the enemy general? Only a man with the experience of an ancient was so…

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A man is a man, on a throne or in a pigsty.

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A man can get killed in there.

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The wheel of a man's life. No mercy. No pity.

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A man's dreams are a maze even he cannot know.

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Keep your mind out of the pigsty, man!

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A man who trusts everyone is a fool and a man who trusts no one is a fool. We are all fools…

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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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In the Borderlands, sheepherder, if a man has the raising of a child, that child is his, and none can say different.

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Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

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It is every man's right to choose when to Sheathe the Sword." --- Ingtar Shinowa ---

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“Relax, lad. Take life as it comes. Run when you have to, fight when you must, rest when you can.”

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My mother always told me the best way to learn to deal with a man was to learn to ride a mule. She said…

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“Stay and get married, or travel the Ways." Loial grimaced ruefully. "Life is very unsettling with ta'veren for friends.”

“Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers. -Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed…

Men always seem to refuse to admit they are sick until they're sick enough to make twice as much work for women. Then they…

Beauty holds more worth than gold.

When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

Death comes to us all; we can only choose how to face it when it comes.

“Burn me," Mat said, throwing on the shirt he dug out of the bundle. "I'll give you a hundred Tar Valon marks if you…