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“Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.”

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“Mercy and weakness are the same thing in war, and there's no prize for nice behavior.”

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“What do the dice say?" Dice say nothing. They are dice." Why roll'em, then?" They are dice. What else would I do with them?”

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“You have to realistic about these things.”

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“Nostalgia was becoming a favoured hobby of his. Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.”

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“The only difference between war and murder is the number of dead.”

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Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud.

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