"A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope."

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Duty is heavier than a mountain, Dai Shan.' That time, Lan did flinch. How long had it been since someone had been able to do that to him with mere words? He remembered teaching that same concept to a youth out of the Two Rivers. A sheepherder, innocent of the world, fearful of the fate laid out before him by the Pattern.

— Robert Jordan