“…but who can know the heart of a man? Not even he himself, I suspect. A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”

— Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

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The Dragon Reborn (15 October 1991)

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