You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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About Lois McMaster Bujold

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Lois McMaster Bujold ( boo-ZHOHLD; born November 2, 1949) is an American speculative fiction writer. She has won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, matching Robert A. Heinlein's record (not counting his Retro Hugos). Bujold is best known for her Vorkosigan Saga, a series of science fiction novels...

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Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

A good home must be made, not bought.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

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They're only truly great who are truly good.

—George Chapman

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My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog already thinks I am.

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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough, and when you have enough, you have self-respect.

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