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SitS ch. IV : - "Thy sorrow will come from thine own mouth."

SitS ch. V : - "There is nothing...except the power which you pretend to seek: power to grind and power to digest, power to seek and power to find, power to await and power to claim, all power and pitilessness springing from the nape of the neck. - Love is a trick played by the forces of evolution. Pleasure is the bait laid down by the same. There is only power. Power is of the individual mind, but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right."

SitS ch. VII : - "I shall have a lady-love, - so that I can wear her favour in my helm, and do deeds in her honour."
Ibid. : -

We'll tilt together
Steady from crupper to poll,
And nothin' in this life shall sever
Our love for the dear old coll.
Follow-up, follow-up, follow-up, follow-up, follow-up
Till the shield ring again and again
With the clanks of the clanky true men.

SitS ch. IX : - "...Say not therefore to the Lord: What doest thou? But say in thy heart: Must not the Lord of all the Earth do right?"

SitS ch. XVIII : - "But what creature could be so low as to go about in bands, to murder others of its own blood?"

SitS ch. XXI : - "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake listening to the disorder in your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
Ibid. : - "True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism."

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QoA&D ch. III : - "The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide."
Ibid. : - "Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds."

QoA&D ch. IV : -"Unless you can make the world wag better than it does at present,...your reign will be an endless series of petty battles, in which...the poor man will be the only one who dies."

QoA&D ch. X : - "...people will do a lot for love."

QoA&D ch. XI : - "Like likes Like."

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IMK ch. XI : - 'The danger about being the best...in the world was that if you were always tested about it, the day was bound to come when you would fail to retain the title.'

IMK ch. XIII : -

Thank God for the aged
And for age itself, and ilness and the grave.
When we are old and ill, and particularly in the coffin,
It is no trouble to behave.

IMK ch. XIV : - "I have given you my hopes, Jenny, as a present from my love."

IMK ch. XV : - '...love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.'

IMK ch. XVI : - "Women know, far better than men, that God's laws are not mocked. They have more cause to know it."

IMK ch. XVII : - 'They stood looking down at the fresh thing, helpless and only half alive. They were strong, as the poet sings, and it was weak--one day they would be weak, and it strong.'

IMK ch. XXVII : - "Don't ever let anybody teach you to think...: it is the curse of the world."
Ibid. : "We have achieved the bodily things: peace and prosperity: now we lack work. If we invent another bodily employment-mere emipre building or something like that-we shall be faced by the same problem again, probably worse, as soon as it has been achieved."

IMK ch. XXX : - "A king can only work with his best tools."

IMK ch. XXXII : - "...the world ...(is) beautiful if you were beautiful, and...you couldn't get unless you gave."

IMK ch. XXXVI : - 'What Arthur had feared from the start of the Grail Quest had come to pass. If you achieve perfection, you die. There had been nothing left for Galahad to ask of God, except death.'

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CitW ch. IV : - "If I don't stand for law, I won't have law among my people. And naturally, I want my people to have the new law, because then they are more prosperous, and I am more prosperous in consequence."

CitW ch. XI : - "War is like a fire,...One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular."
Ibid. : - "It is the mother's lust, not the lover's, that rots the mind. It is that which condemns the tragic character to his walking death."

CitW ch. XII : - "People who say they are no good are always the good ones."

CitW ch. XIV : - 'Perhaps wars were fought because people said my kingdom, my wife, my lover, my posessions. This was what he and Lancelot, and all of them had always held behind their thoughts. Perhaps, so long as people tried to posess things seperately from each other, even honour and souls, there would be wars for ever. The hungry wolf would always attack the fat reindeer, the poor man would rob the banker, the serf would make revolutions against the higher class, and the lack-penny would fight the rich.'