When the ships had lifted, they returned across the river to the silence of death. Then his grandfather told him, "Many fine things your father had planned for you: learning and useful work and a life of satisfaction and peace. Do you recall this?"" Yes, Grandfather.""The learning you shall have. You will learn patience and resource, the ability of your hands and your mind. You will have useful work: the destruction of evil men. What work could be more useful? This is Beyond; you will find that your work is never done–so therefore you may never know life of peace. However, I guarantee you ample satisfaction, for I will teach you to crave the blood of these men more than the flesh of woman." The old man had been as good as his word. . Jack Vance
I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.
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Alan Bradley
No one messes around with a nerd’s computer and escapes unscathed.
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E.a. Bucchianeri
Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.
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Gary D. Schmidt
Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.
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Criss Jami
And now, for something completely the same: Wasted time and wasted breath, 's what I'll make, until my death. Helping people 'd be as good, but I wouldn't, if I could. For the few that help deserve, have no need, or not the nerve, help...
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Will Advise
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If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for...
Good music always defeats bad luck.
I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
