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- If you want someone to tell you what to think," the phantom answered briskly, without looking up, "you will never be short of people willing…
- Mosca and Saracen shared, if not a friendship, at least the solidarity of the generally despised. Mosca assumed that Saracen had his reasons for his…
- Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It wakes old grievances…
- Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead.
- At one o’clock, the ever-logical Right-Eye Grand Steward woke up to discover that during his sleep his left-eyed counterpart had executed three of his advisors…
- It was hopeless. She was flawless. She was a sunbeam. Mosca gave up and got on with hating her.
- Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn men’s heads inside out and warp…
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