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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.

— Michael Kurland Ten Little Wizards (1988)

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He takes every change that has taken place over the past two hundred years as a personal affront.

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