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• Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to the needs of the Clan, and was never swayed by self-interest or pride. He would have made a fine leader.

  Erin Hunter

  Warrior, Pride, Self

  Erin Hunter (2015). “Warriors 6-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Enter the Clans: Books 1-6 Plus Enter the Clans”, p.29, HarperCollins

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• He is a Shadowhunter,” said Jocelyn. “His loyalty will be to Clave and Covenant.” “He’s my friend,” said Magnus coldly. “His loyalty is to me.

  Cassandra Clare

  Covenant, Magnus Bane, Lost Souls

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• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Hands, Giving

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• He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

  Janet Evanovich

  Feet, Toasters, Underwear

  Janet Evanovich (2011). “Stephanie Plum One, Two, Three: One for the Money, Two for the Dough, Three to Get Deadly”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

  Dennis Lehane

  Thinking, Ornaments, Sacred

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• Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.

  Neil Gaiman

  Elephants, Leader, Circus

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• She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Dog, Children, Passion

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• Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend." Isabelle looked over at Jace, who was staring at her in a sort of daze. "He's my brother.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Effort, Tone

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• They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

  Alice Hoffman

  Dream, Dog, Moving

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• The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.

  Sara Zarr

  Together, Done, Ghost

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• Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty.

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Goes On, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.194

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Heart, Men, Risk

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression. Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man

  Margaret Mead

  Laughter, Hate, Grief

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Attitude, Heart, Fighting

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• The general election of 1983 has produced one important result that has passed virtually without comment in the media. It is that, for the first time since 1945, a political party with an openly socialist policy has received the support of over eight and a half million people. This is a remarkable development by any standards and it deserves some analysis ... the 1983 Labour manifesto commanded the loyalty of millions of voters and a democratic socialist bridge-head in public understanding and support can be made.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Eight, Media

  "The Guardian" Newspaper, June 20, 1983.

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• True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.

  James Ellis

  Greatness, Heroic Deeds, Honor

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• I love Tris the Divergent, who makes decisions apart from faction loyalty, who isn’t some faction archetype. But the Tris who’s trying as hard as she can to destroy herself … I can’t love her.

  Veronica Roth

  Believe, Eye, Hands

  "Insurgent". Book by Veronica Roth, 2012.

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• No," he said. "Relius was right and I was wrong. You are My Queen. Even though you cut my head from my shoulders, with my last breath as a noose tightens, to the last beat of my heart if I hang from the walls of the palace, you are My Queen. That I have failed you does not change my love for you or my loyalty.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Queens, Wall, Heart

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• The undead did not love, but they remembered love with a savage loyalty.

  Kim Harrison

  Savages, Undead, Remembered

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• It’s all very well for such a person to whine and moan and criticize other family members, but they won’t let anyone else do it. That’s when you get your back up and show loyalty.

  Markus Zusak

  Members, Criticize, Shows

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.291, RH Childrens Books

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• We have no money. We have no possessions. Maybe that is why we value the things we do have ... loyalty and friendship.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Possession, No Money, Values

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #2: Evil Star”, p.103, Scholastic Inc.

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• Let me give you a word of advice. A loyalty that holds fast will become a blade, and will some day pierce those you hold dear. Open both eyes wide. That is, if you… don’t want to end up like me.

  Jun Mochizuki

  Eye, Giving, Advice

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• They actually think I would abandon the Commander. they have no concept of loyalty.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Thinking, Abandon, Commanders

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.245, Harlequin

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• Love and Loyalty, run deeper than blood." Love that quote even though I haven't read the book.

  Richelle Mead

  Running, Book, Blood

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• I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beautiful, Country, Real

  William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

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