“The trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into just two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.”

Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)

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Science Fiction and fantasy author from the USA 1949

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