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"Barons, my Comtesse, bleed as easily as merchants or peasants. This one bled like the thief he was."
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The Walking Drum"A ship does not sail with yesterdays wind."
The Walking Drum is a novel by the American author Louis L'Amour. Unlike most of his other novels, The Walking Drum is not set in the frontier era of the American West, but rather is an historical novel set in the Middle Ages—12th-century Europe and West Asia.
"Barons, my Comtesse, bleed as easily as merchants or peasants. This one bled like the thief he was."
"Any time is a time for thinking of women, and when they thrust the blade that takes my life I shall be thinking of women, or of a woman. If not, then death has come too late."
"Even if we win, it will be an end of this, and it is a pity that every beginning should also be an end. I shall miss the walking drum, Suzanne, miss it indeed. That drum has been our pulse, and often have I wondered what it is that starts the drum of a mans life to beating? For each of us walks to the beat of our own drum, an unheard rhythm to all our movements and thought."
"By the Gods! If it is a duel of wits you wish, you shall have it! I am sorry, Bardas. I could never fight an unarmed man."
"The companion of vagabonds. Few men are so poor they cannot have fire."
"I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow."