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«I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
blaster, clumsy, crusade, crusades, crusading, dark ages, elegant, guardians, idealistic, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knight, knights, obi, Old Enough, random, republic, The Crusades, The Empire, uncle, WAN
«A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.»
Author: Sir Philip Sidney
(Statesman)
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bravery, fuller, fullers, in the beginning, in the midst, knight, knighted, midst, The knight, The Knights
«I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress.»
Author: Virgil Thomson
(Composer)
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attacking, distress, dragons, errant, knight, Knight Errant, musical, rescues, rescuing, single-handedly
«Like a knight in glittering armor,LaughterStood up at his side.»
«Stopped they must be; on this all depends. Only a fully-trained Jedi Knight, with the Force as his ally, will conquer Vader and his Emperor.»
«MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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foot soldier, foot soldiers, knight, mediaeval, unhorsed, warfare
«KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.»
«No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.»
«Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms.»
«And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows!»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
and so, kingdom, knight, knighted, shadows, So I, The Kingdom, The knight, The Knights
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