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->''On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.''

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->''On the heights, the all paths are paved with daggers.''

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->[[VampireMonarch They]] sit on their thrones because their thrones are barbed. Hooks and wires spring from the chair and pass into their flesh, and not one of them will relinquish his seat. If one were to do so, then the barbs would [[FlayingAlive pull away his skin and he would be left naked]] - and they do not so much fear having others see their nakedness as they fear [[WhatHaveIBecome beholding their own selves]] [[BeneathTheMask unmasked]]. Even when a throne [[KlingonPromotion is vacated]], its hooks and jags and barbs glistening with bits of the last king, the Ventrue [[SuccessionCrisis will vie for the empty chair]]. "We are the finest," they say. "We can govern you. We can protect you from the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat]], from the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupines]]. We can make things safe for all of you."
->I don't know how they can protect me if they can't protect themselves from the chair.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

->'''Lord Tywin Lannister:''' Am I the only one to see through [[ObfuscatingStupidity this]] [[ObfuscatingDisability performance]]? Is it possible that [[SurroundedByIdiots so many could be so stupid for so long]]?
->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[LampshadeHanging There are times when I have trouble believing it myself]].
->'''Lord Tywin Lannister:''' Then why do you bother?
->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[DecadentCourt So many flowers]], my lord, each wanting to grow the tallest, bloom the brightest... and one by one, sooner or later, they all get [[DeadlyEuphemism plucked]]. I don't want to be the tallest or the brightest: [[DirtyCoward I only want to remain in the garden]], until my time comes to return to the dirt.
-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''

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->[[VampireMonarch They]] sit on their thrones because their thrones are barbed. Hooks and wires spring from the chair and pass into their flesh, and not one of them will relinquish his seat. If one were to do so, then the barbs would [[FlayingAlive pull away his skin and he would be left naked]] - and they do not so much fear having others see their nakedness as they fear [[WhatHaveIBecome beholding their own selves]] [[BeneathTheMask unmasked]]. Even when a throne [[KlingonPromotion is vacated]], its hooks and jags and barbs glistening with bits of the last king, the Ventrue [[SuccessionCrisis will vie for the empty chair]]. "We are the finest," they say. "We can govern you. We can protect you from the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat]], from the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupines]]. We can make things safe for all of you."
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don't know how they can protect me if they can't protect themselves from the chair.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade -->-- ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

->'''Lord Tywin Lannister:''' Am I the only one to see through [[ObfuscatingStupidity this]] [[ObfuscatingDisability performance]]? Is it possible that [[SurroundedByIdiots so many could be so stupid for so long]]?
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long]]?\\
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Maester Pycelle:''' [[LampshadeHanging There are times when I have trouble believing it myself]].
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myself]].\\
'''Lord
Tywin Lannister:''' Then why do you bother?
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bother?\\
'''Grand
Maester Pycelle:''' [[DecadentCourt So many flowers]], my lord, each wanting to grow the tallest, bloom the brightest... and one by one, sooner or later, they all get [[DeadlyEuphemism plucked]]. I don't want to be the tallest or the brightest: [[DirtyCoward I only want to remain in the garden]], until my time comes to return to the dirt.
-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''
-->-- ''Series/GameOfThrones''



-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Children Of The Horned Rat - A Guide To Skaven''

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-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: -->-- ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Children Of The Horned Rat - A Guide To Skaven''Skaven''

->''On the heights, the paths are paved with daggers.''
-->-- Saying in the Seanchan [[TheEmpire Empire]], ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime''

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->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[DeadlyDecadentCourt So many flowers]], my lord, each wanting to grow the tallest, bloom the brightest... and one by one, sooner or later, they all get [[DeadlyEuphemism plucked]]. I don't want to be the tallest or the brightest: [[DirtyCoward I only want to remain in the garden]], until my time comes to return to the dirt.

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->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt So many flowers]], my lord, each wanting to grow the tallest, bloom the brightest... and one by one, sooner or later, they all get [[DeadlyEuphemism plucked]]. I don't want to be the tallest or the brightest: [[DirtyCoward I only want to remain in the garden]], until my time comes to return to the dirt.
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-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''

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-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''

->[[EvilSorcerer Grey Seers]] have unmatched power, for any who oppose them are denounced as heretics and traitors, earning a swift and terrible death. Their influence and position gives these leaders a little more security and freedom than that available to other Skaven, but [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder treachery is ingrained in this culture]]. With power comes resentment, rewarding no few Grey Seers with a knife in the back.
-->--''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay: Children Of The Horned Rat - A Guide To Skaven''
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->[[VampireMonarch They]] sit on their thrones because their thrones are barbed. Hooks and wires spring from the chair and pass into their flesh, and not one of them will relinquish his seat. If one were to do so, then the barbs would [[FlayingAlive pull away his skin and he would be left naked]] - and they do not so much fear having others see their nakedness as they fear [[WhatHaveIBecome beholding their own selves]] [[BeneathTheMask unmasked]]. Even when a throne [[KlingonPromotion is vacated]], its hooks and jags and barbs glistening with bits of the last king, the Ventrue [[SuccessionCrisis will vie for the empty chair]]. "We are the finest," they say. "We can govern you. We can protect you from the [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Sabbat]], from the [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Lupines]]. We can make things safe for all of you."
->I don't know how they can protect me if they can't protect themselves from the chair.
-->--''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade - Clanbook: Malkavian (Revised)''

->'''Lord Tywin Lannister:''' Am I the only one to see through [[ObfuscatingStupidity this]] [[ObfuscatingDisability performance]]? Is it possible that [[SurroundedByIdiots so many could be so stupid for so long]]?
->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[LampshadeHanging There are times when I have trouble believing it myself]].
->'''Lord Tywin Lannister:''' Then why do you bother?
->'''Grand Maester Pycelle:''' [[DeadlyDecadentCourt So many flowers]], my lord, each wanting to grow the tallest, bloom the brightest... and one by one, sooner or later, they all get [[DeadlyEuphemism plucked]]. I don't want to be the tallest or the brightest: [[DirtyCoward I only want to remain in the garden]], until my time comes to return to the dirt.
-->--''Series/GameOfThrones''

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