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61 " Education proved to be no match for avarice. "
― Ken Liu , The Grace of Kings (The Dandelion Dynasty, #1)
62 " Even a brilliant mind sometimes needs a dull stone to sharpen itself. "
63 " He has no understanding of the art of drawing power from men’s hearts: politics. "
64 " He wanted to say that he yearned to accomplish something extraordinary, to be admired like a man riding at the head of a great procession. "
65 " Of the Six States, only Haan remained completely under Xana occupation. But there was a Haan government in exile, and King Cosugi of Haan, who had surrendered to the emperor Mapidéré when he was a young man thirty years ago, now lived in Çaruza as a guest of the newly established King Thufi of Cocru. "
66 " The common people are like unruly children. If you give them candy always, they will think they should be given even more. But if you slap them hard and then hand them candy, they will come crawling to you and lick your hand. "
67 " Mazoti said nothing. It always seemed that no matter how hard a woman worked, a man could eclipse her with no effort. “Gin, "
68 " Our lives are too brief to worry about the judgment of others, let alone that of history. "
69 " A bright and tenacious flower will not bloom in obscurity. "
70 " He would measure the world against the rigid grid of his heart and put each man in charge of a domain no more and no less than his just deserts. "
71 " Sometimes those who lit the spark that began a conflagration must be consumed by it lest the fire burn on indefinitely. "
72 " I do have the consolation that my enjoyment brings no death and suffering; when I die no one will jump up and down in joy; and I remember all the names and faces that matter to me.” Mata "
73 " Authority is a delicate thing, and it must be carefully cultivated by proper ritual and action from the governing and the governed alike. "
74 " Na-aroénna spun like a chrysanthemum of slaughter, and Goremaw rose and fell like the beating heart of death. "
75 " Kuni didn’t change his tone at all. If anything, he grew even calmer. “These cartoons are very amateurish. I could show Namen many more tricks about how to insult people artfully. For example, the drawings could have been made much more subtle and also much more lewd.” “What? "
76 " Seeing that no more Xana champions took to the air, Kuni and Mata’s men jeered at Namen’s camp from atop the walls: “Who’s the girlie now?” “Tanno Namen is an old lady more skilled with the embroidery needle than the sword!” “Namen, what’s for dinner?” “Maybe the girls from Xana should go back to Pan before it’s too late.” Some "
77 " Everyone marched as fast or slow as he liked. "
78 " So let us no more think of being compared to women as an insult.” It "
79 " All life is an experiment,” Kuni said. “We are all swallows flying in the storm, and if we should land safely, it will be due to equal measures of luck and skill. "
80 " It was a cruben, the great one-horned scaled whale of Dara and sovereign of the seas: two hundred feet long and as large next to an elephant as an elephant would be next to a mouse. Its eyes were so dark that they sucked in all sunlight like deep wells, and when the great fish exhaled through its blowhole, the fountain shot as high as a hundred feet. "