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"You are an honest and honorable man, Lord Eddard. Ofttimes I forget that. I have met so few of them in my life." He glanced around the cell. "When I see what honesty and honor have won you, I understand why."
If I were a character in The Game of Thrones, I'd be Ned Stark.
Too honest, too proud, too blind to understand the not-so-noble ways of avoiding harm.
People always talk about 'living' and 'existing'. I'm pretty sure there's a third option.
It's called 'being stupid'.