He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white, and found it hard to be patient with things that struck him as foolishness.

John Christopher

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Having achieved what I thought was an ultimate ambition, I found, as I think is often the case, that there remained something more.

John Christopher

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More and more I had come to see the Capped as lacking what seemed to me the essence of humanity, the vital spark of defiance against the rulers of the world.

John Christopher

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One enjoys friendship most when times are good, when the sun shines and the world is kind. But it is the sharing of adversity that knits men together.

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Some people are oil and water.

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We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

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Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

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To voice doubts was unthinkable, but that did not means that doubts did not exist.

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It is hard to be defensive toward a danger which you have never imagined existed.

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A general does not use the same troops over and over again.

John Christopher

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