No tactical plan should hinge on one’s enemy making the right mistake. - Lois McMaster Bujold

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No tactical plan should hinge on one’s enemy making the right mistake.

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About Lois McMaster Bujold

Lois McMaster Bujold (born 2 November 1949, Columbus, Ohio) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy works, most noted for the works in her Vorkosigan Saga.

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, Kyle Cassidy (CC BY-SA)

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You were kind.”

Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”

Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.”

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