"And the first king was a lucky soldier."

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Source : S. M. Stirling (2003). “Conquistador: It's 1946. The White Man is about to Discover America”, ROC Hardcover

S.M. Stirling

#Kings Quotes #Soldier Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that weâ€™ll always have more to give.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“Art has always been this--pure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoric--whatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”
“At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.”
“I don't know, monogamy is a weird thing for me.”
“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
“Somehow the wondrous promise of the earth is that there are things beautiful in it, things wondrous and alluring, and by virtue of your trade you want to understand them.”
“I who have set my heart on watching over the soul, in union with Good Thought, and as knowing the rewards of Mazda Ahura for our works, will, while I have power and strength, teach men to seek after Right. I have become an alien in a foreign land.”

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