H. Beam Piper Quotes

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• Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
• Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
• Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ...…
• I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the…
• English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
• English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than…
• I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.
• Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and…

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