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Results of search for Author: Lois McMaster Bujold - Page 4 of 6
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A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
You have to be careful who you let define your good.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Never... ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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