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"TO THE LADY JESSICA--
May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

My kindest wishes,

MARGOT LADY FENRING

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-- Gaius Helen Mohiam

Dune 1:10:38

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What had the Lady Jessica to sustain her in her time of trial? Think you carefully on the Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you can not see the mountain."


--from "Muad'Dib: Family Commentaries" by the Princess Irulan

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Dune 1:10:0

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Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.


--from "The Humanity of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan

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Dune 1:9:0

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Jessica stopped beside him, said: "What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child."

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-- Jessica Atreides

Dune 1:8:42

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Jessica hesitated. "The thing must take its course." That was a specific catchphrase from the Missionaria Protectiva's stock of incantations--The coming of the Reverend Mother to free you.

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-- Jessica Atreides

Dune 1:7:123

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Mapes lowered the knife. "My Lady, when one has lived with prophecy for so long, the moment of revelation is a shock."

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-- Shadout Mapes

Dune 1:7:111

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Amd Jessica thought: There was an edge to that question. Here's the reason this Fremen has taken service with me, to ask that one question. My answer could precipitate violence or . . . what? She seeks an answer from me: the meaning of a knife. She's called the Shadout in the Chakobsa tongue. Knife, that's "Death Maker" in Chakobsa. She's getting restive. I must answer now. Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

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-- Jessica Atreides

Dune 1:7:103