On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident. How much can a crown be worth, when a crow can dine upon a king?
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A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.
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A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.
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A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Small men curse what they cannot understand.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we'll live.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
Sometimes Old Nan would tell the same story she'd told before, but we never minded, if it was a good story. Old stories are like old friends, she used to say. You have to visit them from time to time.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
War makes thieves of many honest folk.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.
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A Storm of Swords by George R. R. Martin
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
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A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin