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• What did it mean to be called “lord”? I’ll assume you’ve never had the honor, since I doubt any of you happen to be British royalty. (And, if by chance you are, then let me say, “Hello, Your Majesty! Welcome to my stupid book. Can I borrow some cash?”)

  Brandon Sanderson

  Stupid, Book, Mean

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Scrivener's Bones: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.114, Macmillan

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• Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland

  Jacqueline Carey

  Battle, May, Sake

  Jacqueline Carey (2003). “Kushiel's Chosen: A Novel”, p.239, Macmillan

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• What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

  Victor Hugo

  Gold, Fool, Dignity

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

  Sheri Holman

  Names, Tree, Southern

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• Looking up in the sky, I saw the stars were brighter now. They made a pattern I had never noticed before- a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girls figure- a girl with a bow, running across the sky. "Let the world honor you, my Huntress. Live forever in the stars.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Running, Stars

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• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Way, Unnecessary

  Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

  Lisa Scottoline

  Mom, Long Ago, Tantrums

  Lisa Scottoline (2010). “Look Again”, p.53, Pan Macmillan

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• I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.

  Tamora Pierce

  Horse, People, Sick

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.499, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.

  Don DeLillo

  Writing, Reflection, Space

  Don DeLillo (2003). “Cosmopolis: A Novel”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married" It is an honor that I dream not of

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Dream, Married

  William Shakespeare (2009). “CliffsComplete Romeo and Juliet”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finally someone takes me seriously enough to ask for my word of honor, and it’s a villain.

  Sherwood Smith

  Villain, Enough, Take Me

  "Remalna's Children". Book by Sherwood Smith, 2011.

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• Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

  Noah Webster

  Excellence, Female, Modesty

  Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.140

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• And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

  Thomas Jefferson

  God, Support, Independence

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

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• When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Loss, Sight, Principles

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.325, Bible Study Steps

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• Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

  Doreen Valiente

  Heart, Humility, Compassion

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• It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Mother, Art, Powerful

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.152, Stanford University Press

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• We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished-but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.

  Mario Puzo

  Loyalty, Commitment, Ifs

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• These things, she felt, were not to be passed around like disingenuous party favors. She kept an honor code with her journals and her poems. 'Inside, inside,' she would whisper quietly to herself when she felt the urge to tell.

  Alice Sebold

  Party, Favors, Code

  Alice Sebold (2002). “The Lovely Bones”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Believe, Heart

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Children, Saws, My Family

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.115, Chosen Books

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• How many of them were there?' Her voice wasn't joking around. Eighteen. Hundred.' Four,' Blaylock interjected. 'An honor guard of four.' What did they work you over with? Those bruises on your thighs are severe?' Crowbars. Big, massive-' Blay cut in. 'Clubs. Had to be those ceremonial black clubs.

  J.R. Ward

  Cutting, Voice, Black

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• Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false accusation, and shout curses at this ill-begotten society that did not hesitate to trample on one's honor, and remain imperturbable even when forced with crushing proofs of his disloyalty.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Crush, Heart, Men

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• I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

  Steve Toltz

  Men, Giving, Beast

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.3, Spiegel & Grau

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• A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Want, Seems

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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• [Hermes addresses Prometheus :] To you, the clever and crafty, bitter beyond all bitterness, who has sinned against the gods in bestowing honors upon creatures of a day--to you, thief of fire, I speak.

  Aeschylus

  Clever, Fire, Thieves

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