He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face." I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. "My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that a scar is the badge of honour of the warrior, and this I believe." He regarded me for a long moment. "I think I am glad we did not face your father and his brother in battle, " he said, "for they were of better stuff than what we have found here." In saying this, he gave my dead kinsmen much praise. I felt that praise came rarely from the Danes, and took a strange pleasure in hearing him say this. I did not speak, but he lifted his cup to me, and I again took up mine. - Sidroc the Dane to Ceridwen . Octavia Randolph
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J.m. Barrie
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Augustine Of Hippo
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E.a. Bucchianeri
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Hunter S. Thompson
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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He lowered his voice. "You are a true shield-maiden; you do not turn from a scar on a man's face." I looked at him and did not lower my eyes. "My father was an ealdorman, and his brother ealdorman after him. He taught me that...
