An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lois McMaster Bujold in Shards of Honor (1986)
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.

Lois McMaster Bujold in Shards of Honor (1986)
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Tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold in Shards of Honor
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