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And the mighty are great worriers and spend much time preventing anything that troubles their peace of mind.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Women have power over men almost as great as gods do.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Too much good luck was always dangerous.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Know it or not, man treads between abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Unlike men, rubies and emeralds do not rest quietly in their graves.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
That is as far from the truth as I am from the Secret of the Sphinx.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Let never the gems of business be mixed with the jewels of pleasure.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Bored and insecure men will loose arrows at dust motes.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Aye, there’s the bitter core of all freedom: no pay!
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
The worst thing about mountain climbing is that the easy parts go so quickly.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
The more brilliant the enchanted male, the stupider the enchanting female.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
When one achieves revenge, the innocent perforce suffer.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Aye, we played at being mice, forgetting cats are real.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Great conquerors live on as their enemies’ devils.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
“What’s the use of knowing the name of a skull? One would never have occasion to talk of it,” said the fat thief loudly. “What interests me is that it has rubies for eyes.”
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
And just think what rare delights—nay, what whole sets of ecstasies and blisses—this much gold would buy. How fortunate that metal was mindless slave of the man who held it!
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
They, like many priests, had been much too fanatical and not nearly as clever as the god they served.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
We have searched the wide world over and not found forgetfulness.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)
Old legends said Death had a skinny sister denominated Pain, passionately devoted to the loathsome torture that often was Death’s prelude.
Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series (1939)