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„Tylko głupi żołnierz odrzuca tuż przed bitwą nawet najskromniejszą broń.”

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“As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.”

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“Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.”

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“Stout men, not stout walls, make a well-held city.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 158)

“Does mud care which cloak it bespatters?”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 160)

“Each man follows the path of destiny, but no two paths are alike. It seems that mine now runs into a place of evil intent, wasted wisdom, and stupidity.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 168)

“There was a saying of the peasants—the rat cannot call the cat to account. But it was also true that if the moon moves but slowly, still it crosses the city.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 3, “Sirrush-Lau” (p. 78)

“A foot of jade is of no value, an inch of time is to be prized.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 163)

“It is always impossible—he was conscious again with that strange clarity of mind—for a man to face his own death honestly. A man always continues to believe to the last moment of his life that something will intervene to save him.”

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Andre Norton książka The Time Traders

Źródło: The Time Traders (1958), p. 198

“Treasure! That word, which had always been so exciting, meant something different now. Fafnir had taken the treasure and turned from man into monster because of his greed for it. Mimir, who had been Sigurd’s master and good friend—when the treasure had lain before him, he, too, became a monster, in another way. Then Sigurd had made his choice, to leave the evil, and so he had gone away a hero.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 3, “Sirrush-Lau” (p. 64)

“Jade and men are both shaped by harsh tools; be not unaware of sudden changes of fortune.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 158)

“From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 164)

“He was listening, too, for it is through the eyes and ears that one learns. A spiderweb of facts can tie up the lion of action; not to know is bad; not to strive to know is worse.”

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Źródło: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 3, “Sirrush-Lau” (p. 84)

“You can’t play the role of thug all over the galaxy and not store up in the subconscious a fine line of private fears and remembered enemies.”

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Andre Norton książka Storm Over Warlock

Źródło: Storm Over Warlock (1960), Chapter 18, “Storm’s Ending” (p. 198)

“Their tribal system is strictly matriarchal, which follows a pattern even Terra once knew: the fertile earth mother and her priestesses, who became the witches when the gods overruled the goddesses.”

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Andre Norton książka Storm Over Warlock

Źródło: Storm Over Warlock (1960), Chapter 15, “Dragon Slayer” (p. 164)

“And the opposite of dreams are facts!”

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Andre Norton książka Storm Over Warlock

Źródło: Storm Over Warlock (1960), Chapter 11, “The Witch” (p. 118)

“Only darkness could not be held off by the will of men.”

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Andre Norton książka Storm Over Warlock

Źródło: Storm Over Warlock (1960), Chapter 7, “Unwelcome Guide” (p. 67)

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