Sep-12-2010, 08:40 PM (UTC)
(Sep-12-2010, 12:32 PM (UTC))Nuytsia Wrote: "When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all."
Like "blood will tell", this seems to be one of Robin's favourite sayings.
Fitz repeats it in RA ("But as the Fool had once warned me, there was no point to trying to measure Regal's wheat with my bushels." in chapt 26) and then it's again used in Forest Mage (!!) "Don’t measure my wheat with your bushel." (chapt 25, Nevare mentions it as something his father used to say). Robin also mentioned it once at her newsgroup as something her mother (I think) used a lot. (I wish there was an easy way to access and search the archives of that newsgroup, they would be a treasure trove of references!)
And yes, I've been keeping an eye on this.
"Green nubs on the dry sticks of the clematis promised that the appearance of death was not death itself." - Ship of Destiny
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