Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be … - Lois McMaster Bujold

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Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Good, Next, Sleep, Soldier, Soldiers

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Action, Correct, Lead, Understanding

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

Beautiful, Hope, Men, Real, Unforgivable

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Blessing, Curse, Point Of View, View, Views

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

First Impression, Matter, Sight, Stunning

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She says, "But in contentment I still feel The need for imperishable bliss. " Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires. Is there no change of death in paradise? Does ripe fruit never fall? or do the boughs Hang always heavy in that perfect sky, Unchanging, yet so like our perishing earth, With rivers like our own that seek for seas They never find, the same receding shores That never touch with inarticulate pang?

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Then it’s just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It’s only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, “We would all like you to know what a…privilege it has been to make you look your best. ” Then she hastens from the room.

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The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

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