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• Who then will dare to say I'm weak or timid? No, they'll say I'm loyal as a friend, ruthless as a foe, so much like a hero destined for glory.

  Euripides

  Hero, Glory, Weak

  Euripides (2006). “Medea”, p.70, Oxford University Press

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• Just because a person is young doesn’t mean that being loyal to someone isn’t important. And it still hurts if someone isn’t loyal to you.

  C.C. Hunter

  Hurt, Mean, Important

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.232, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Patriotic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

  Euripides

  Humble, Thinking, Enemy

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• Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.

  Alberto Moravia

  Loyalty, Self, People

  Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.93, New York Review of Books

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• It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

  Sarah Dessen

  Judgement, Supportive, Experts

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• Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius

  Kathryn Lasky

  Song, Memories, Years

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Queens, Two, Missing

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• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Friendly, Done

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• Ethan was loyal and funny and protective. When we were little, he was the brother most likely to make me cry—and mostly likely to wipe away my tears.

  Rachel Vincent

  Brother, Tears, Wipe

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• Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.

  William Shakespeare

  Writing, Night, House

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [289]

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• I miss the Stella girls telling me what I am. That I'm sweet and placid and accommodating and loyal and nonthreatening and good to have around. And Mia. I want her to say, "Frankie, you're silly, you're lazy, you're talented, you're passionate, you're restrained, you're blossoming, you're contrary." I want to be an adjective again. But I'm a noun. A nothing. A nobody. A no one.

  Melina Marchetta

  Girl, Sweet, Silly

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.37, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Strong, Giving, Healthy

  "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype". Book by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 1992.

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• Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Educational, Passion, Loyal Customers

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• Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

  Dean Koontz

  Loyalty, Grace, Despair

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1588, Bantam

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• When you're a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls - you want to get the most girls. You don't know anything about respect; you don't know anything about being faithful and loyal to your girlfriend.

  Nas

  Girl, Teenager, Faithful

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

  William Ralph Inge

  Character, Judging, Personality

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• It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Book, Men

  "A Message to Garcia" (1899)

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• Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Mind, Noble

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1167, Delphi Classics

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• Everything depends on attitude. We are ambitious or lazy, enthusiastic or dull, loyal or undependable, according to our attitude. We get good grades or poor grades - according to our attitudes. Discouragement is an attitude. Lack of industry is an attitude. Failure to follow instructions is an attitude. attitude

  Sterling W Sill

  Loyalty, Attitude, Failure

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• Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Liars, Boys, Voice

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• There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Loyalty, Men, Important

  Attributed in W. T. Roche's address at Washington, Kansas, April 9, 1942; "Congressional Record", April 15, 1942, vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A149), 1942.

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• How many things in the world deserve our loyalty? Very few indeed. I think one should be loyal to immortality, which is another word for life, a stronger word for it.

  Boris Pasternak

  Loyalty, Thinking, Stronger

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• One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful, Constant, Dutiful, Easy, Faithful, Gallant, Honorable, Ingenious, Kind, Loyal, Mild, Noble, Officious, Prudent, Quiet, Rich, Secret, True, Valiant, Wise; the X indeed, is too harsh a letter to agree with him, but he is Young and Zealous.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Love, Wise, Faithful

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1854). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.165

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• When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?

  Amy Tan

  Believe, Loyal Friend

  Amy Tan (1995). “The Hundred Secret Senses: A Novel”, p.88, Penguin

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