Common sense will nearly always stand you in better stead than a slavish adherence to the conventions.
Wisdom, Advice
It is not an easy thing to be a woman and love with the whole heart: which men do not understand - having many loves, and delighting in danger and war.
Love, War
There is no particular merit in fighting for your own skin when you know that it is fight or die, but there is considerable merit in being prepared to die when you know you can escape quite easily. Put at its lowest, there is a certain stubborn foolhardy heroism in that.
War
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