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The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
John Steinbeck
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
“The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.”
“This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is preparing. Why do you not make a plan to save yourself?" And Merlin said quietly, "Because I am wise. In the combat between wisdom and feeling, wisdom never wins.”
“Then it is better, sir, to love whom one cannot have?" "Probably better," Lancelot said. "Certainly safer.”
“I have seen too many men go down, and I never permit myself to forget that one day, through accident or under the charge of a younger, stronger knight, I too will go down.”
“With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor.”
“It is a child speaking," said Merlin, "not a king and not a knight, but a hurt and angry child, or you would know, my lord, that there is more to a king than a crown, and far more to a knight than a sword. You were a knight when you grappled Pellinore unarmed." "And he defeated me." "You were a knight," said Merlin. "Somewhere in the world there is defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
“Misfortune is not fair, fate is not just, but they exist just the same.”
“Do you believe that a man in need can call soundlessly to another?" "Perhaps, my lord. It has happened to me that thinking of a friend and meeting him are connected. But does thinking draw him or his coming draw the thought?”
“Perhaps it is so with everyone, that he looks for weakness in the strong to find promise of strength in his weakness.”
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