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  1. David Weber _ Ashes of Victory

    Hamish Alexander stood on 's flag deck with his hands clasped behind him and tried very hard not to feel a sense of godlike power.
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  2. David Weber _ Through Fiery Trials

    It's amazing what deadly weapons compassion and morality are when they're deployed in the service of diplomacy.
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  3. David Weber _ Through Fiery Trials

    Nothing else in this world can damn and destroy souls as effectively as our need to inflict vengeance and call it justice.
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  4. David Weber _ Through Fiery Trials

    logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
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  5. David Weber _ Through Fiery Trials

    Stupidity and bigotry are their own worst enemies,
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  6. David Weber _ Through Fiery Trials

    economies depend a lot more on perceptions than realities.
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  7. David Weber _ A Rising Thunder

    There's not much point in making logical arguments to someone who's already decided to ignore inconvenient truths, so
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  8. David Weber _ A Rising Thunder

    Let's see, we've got the Empress of Manticore, the President of the Republic of Haven, the Protector of Grayson, the chairman of the Beowulf Board of Directors, Queen Berry, and the Andermani emperor's first cousin. Not to mention your own humble self as Steadholder Harrington and the commander of the Grand Fleet, followed by a scattering of mere planetary grand dukes, dukes, earls, members of the Havenite cabinet, three other members of the Beowulf Board of Directors, the chairman of the Alliance joint chiefs of staff, the First Space Lord, the Havenite chief of naval operations, the Beowulfan chief of naval operations, High Admiral Yanakov, Admiral Yu, two or three dozen ambassadors, and God alone only knows who else.
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  9. David Weber _ Off Armageddon Reef

    a detached corner of Fofão's brain said.
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  10. David Weber _ Off Armageddon Reef

    I do not tell you that those who turn to betrayal, to theft, to murder and treason, do so only because they are good men who have been led astray. I tell you only that all men begin as good men. What they are taught as children, what is expected of them as young men, is either the armor about that goodness or the flaw that allows evil in.
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  11. David Weber _ Off Armageddon Reef

    in a voice flat with the panic-resisting armor of training.
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  12. David Weber _ Torch of Freedom

    He seemed quite a cheerful fellow, too. Even puckish, you might say-at least if, like Brice, you had just recently encountered the term and been taken by it, but hadn't yet read enough literature to realize that "puckish" was by no means the same thing as "harmless.
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