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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

— Patrick Rothfuss The Name of the Wind (2007)

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There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

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There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience.

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Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.

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Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

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My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.

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