1. "Woman you may be, but descended from a knight, or a crusader."
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Pauline Réage, Story of O: A Novel
2. "The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant."
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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. "The neophyte scientist, recently come or converted to the world view of science, can be every bit as fanatical as a Christian crusader or a soldier of Allah."
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M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love
4. "A man is called a traitor, or liberator. A rich man is a theif or philanthropist. Is one a crusader or ruthless invader? It's all in which label is able to persist."
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Quote by Gregory Maguire
5. "I secured a doughnut and coffee. I checked with Karrin and Valmont. Neither wanted to save the doughnuts from Nicodemus’s corruptive influence. Not everyone can be a crusader like me."
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Jim Butcher, Skin Game
6. "There was of course no point in trying to monitor Eisman. He saw himself as a crusader, a champion of the underdog, an enemy of sinister authority. He saw himself, roughly speaking, as Spider-Man."
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Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
7. "I cannot be a monk, nor a crusader, nor a tumbler. I must stay here and hem sheets until I die. My humors are greatly out of balance. I prescribe for myself wormwood and spiced wine and some of the custard left from supper, and I will let all of the dogs sleep in my bed."
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Karen Cushman, Catherine
8. "I was still a novice at the caped crusader super-sleuth thing, but it didn’t take a degree from the Sherlock Holmes Detective School to see exactly what had happened here. Alison had come home, put her lunch in the zapper, poured herself a beverage, turned on her computer and . . . vanished off the face of the earth."
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Suzanne Brockmann, Infamous
9. "Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!"
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Quote by Anaïs Nin
10. "I know what you be thinking, an’ you be wrong. Different Gawain, no relation to the Gawaine that were in Arthur's court. But he is knighted, I believe, because he carries a mighty sword with him under that great-cloak. Well, bugger me! A Crusader!"
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Adam Copeland, Echoes of Avalon