Honor is what you know about yourself. - Lois McMaster Bujold

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People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Honor is what you know about yourself.

About Yourself, Honor, Honored, Know

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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.

Ignorance, Mistake, Mistakes, Responsible, Stupid, World

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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