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“‘Be not the first by whom the new is tried,’ as that poet fellow said, ‘Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.’”
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
There’s more leg room in first class, to be sure, but there’s more poetry in second class—and more honesty in third.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
By their works we shall know them. Always assuming that they exist.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
I won’t say it’s impossible, my lord, but I will say that it’s so close to impossible as to be inconceivable.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
He could have assigned this part of the job to another, but it was not in his conception of his duties to do so. The shorter the chain, the less chance for a broken link.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
It had been a long time ago, when life had been less complex. Or, perhaps, it had only seemed less complex.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
Everyone leaned over the map and examined it with interest. Here was a tangible thing to look at, to make them feel that something was being accomplished. Everything’s under control, Lord Darcy said wryly to himself, we have a map.
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
“Yours is a minority opinion, Major, as I suppose you know,” Lord Darcy told him. “But it is one which should be heard more often. It is a question that deserves to be debated and discussed, and not simply have the answers assumed by those in authority.”
Ten Little Wizards (1988)
“We are greatly complimented, my lord,” Marquis Sherrinford said dryly. “You don’t think we’re gibbering madmen.”
Ten Little Wizards (1988)