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“I know my equations are true,” she mused aloud. “I need to know if they are fact.”

Michael Flynn book Eifelheim

Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 384)

““Had you learned to flatter the Kaiser, you would need not live in the back woods.”
“Had you learned to live in the back woods, you would need not flatter the Kaiser.””

Michael Flynn book Eifelheim

Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XIX (p. 340)

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“Much as I would tend my manor in peace, peace needs the consent of all, while one alone may raise a war. I swore an oath to protect the defenseless and punish peace-breakers, and that includes peace-breaking Herrenfolk. Your priests say to forgive your enemy, and that is well, or revenge follows revenge until eternity. But between a man who will stop at nothing and one who will hesitate at anything, the advantage is generally to the former. The pagans had right, too. It is a false peace to be overforgiving. Your enemy may read forbearance as weakness and so be drawn to strike.”

Michael Flynn book Eifelheim

Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XIV (p. 252)

War , Peace , Forgiveness , Revenge

“Had you learned to flatter the Kaiser, you would need not live in the back woods.”

Michael Flynn book Eifelheim

“Had you learned to live in the back woods, you would need not flatter the Kaiser.”
Source: Eifelheim (2006), Chapter XIX (p. 340)

Learning