An honor is not diminished for being shared. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1…

Lois McMaster Bujold
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An honor is not diminished for being shared. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.170, Baen Books
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Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?
We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (2002). Diplomatic Immunity, p.132, Baen Books
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 … ▶
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement. ✨ Mirror Dance. Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1994.
There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, … ▶

An honor is not diminished for being shared. ✨ Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). Cordelia's Honor, p.170, Baen Books

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