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Men Quotes by Lois McMaster Bujold
- This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the…
- Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice - if not whether, then how, they may endure.
- But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect…
- The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger,…
- Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I'd always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened,…
- There was no limit to what one man might do, if he gave all, and held back nothing.
- They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she…
- I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.
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