Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts,…

George R. R. Martin
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Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, he declared. I doubt if he could kill a duck. Tyrion shrugged. Fetch the duck. ✨ George R. R. Martin (2011). A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five, p.137, Bantam
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Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts, he declared. I doubt if he could kill a duck. Tyrion shrugged. Fetch the duck. ✨ George R. R. Martin (2011). A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five, p.137, Bantam

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