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Knight without fear and without reproach.

Knights do protect ladies, but only to keep them from being abducted by other knights.

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged...

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Trite though it (used to) sound, real sexuality is about our struggles to connect with one another, ...

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The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto even...

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

How can you still count yourself a knight, when you have forsaken every vow you ever swore?" Jaime r...

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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...

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

War seems like a fine adventure, the greatest most of them will ever know. Then they get a taste of ...

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Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I ...

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We are all very much alike in France in this respect; we still remain knights, knights of love and f...

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Guy de MaupassantThe Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant

Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed an...

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Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The moral, I suppose, would be that the first requirements for a heroic career are the knightly virt...

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You see all the other fellows were so active and earnest and all that sort of thing- always rampagin...

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