“Do not
forget duty. But choose love when you can.”
Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist
Source: The Gray Wolf Throne
“Choose the duty that you can most effectively execute: that is, finally, all we can do in life.”
— Sherwood Smith, book A Stranger to Command
A Stranger to Command (Crown & Court 0.5, 2008)
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