“Do you know the difference between a nation of merchants and a nation of warriors?” I followed through without waiting for a reply. “Only one of them is prepared to fall on its blade. King Horrace might promise you the world but in the end you will reap the greater loss.”
“They are brothers,” Benny repeated softly. “That is a bond you cannot break.”
“Our history told of kings that smiled and kings that conquered. He was the latter.”
“I had trained my whole life as a warrior. But in that moment I was the damsel-in-distress.”
“Cheer is for fools with idle minds. I am neither a fool nor idle.”
“Things that are changed or gone will come back as they used to be.”
“Resume's are incapable of holistically communicating a candidates value.”