"And we must still try or we would……" — Naomi Novik
"And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it."
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20 Quotes by Naomi Novik
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Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with…
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Trying to out-guess Bonaparte; the thought makes my blood run cold.
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The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it…
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The single most important technique for making progress is to write ten words. Doesn't matter if you're badly stuck, or…
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I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see…
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I do not think you are in any danger of starving," Maximus said. "The surgeon said only two weeks ago…
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The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very…
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I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
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I am very tired of this Government, which I have never seen, and which is always insisting that I must…
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It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it…
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Would you believe it's harder to find a virgin than a unicorn in New York?
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Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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