# Quote — George RR Martin, A Dance with Dragons

> "You have to be careful around big people. Be jolly and playful with them, keep them smiling, make them laugh, that's what my father always said. Didn't your father ever tell you how to act with big people?"
>
> "My father called them smallfolk," said Tyrion, "and he was not what you'd call a jolly man."

- Author: [George RR Martin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin.md)
- Book: [A Dance with Dragons](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-rr-martin/a-dance-with-dragons/you-have-to-be-careful

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> She wants fire, and Dorne sent her mud.
>
> You could make a poultice out of mud to cool a fever. You could plant seeds in mud and grow a crop to feed your children. Mud would nourish you, where fire would only consume you, but fools and children and young girls would choose fire every time.

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> Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.

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