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"I underestimated you, woman." ... "The cry of men down the ages."

— David Gemmell

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This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

Evil will never be countered while good men do nothing.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

The waters run that we might drink of them, but they are also symbols of the futility of man.

'Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.'

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

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