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Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "W...more

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Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't...more

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Sellswords put gold before honor.

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Without honor, a knight is no more than a common killer. It is better to die with honor than to live without it.

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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final wor...more

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A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to wa...more

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Love is the bane of honor, the death of duty.

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Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I'll sleep more easily by night.

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Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

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You wear your honor like a suit of armor... You think it keeps you safe, but all it does is weigh you down and make it hard for you to move.

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Even a hedge knight has his honor.

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Would you rather die with honor intact or live with it besmirched?

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Our honor means no more than our lives, so long as the realm is safe.