A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"The Kingsroad." Game of Thrones, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and George R.R. Martin, directed by Timothy Van Patten, season 1, episode 2, Television 360 and Grok! Studio, 2011.

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