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The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.

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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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A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

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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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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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...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

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You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life.” He glanced around the cell. “When I s...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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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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It was a cruel fate, Yet not so cruel as Mago's will be. I promise you that, by the old gods and the new, by the lamb god and the horse god and every ...more

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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?