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When you poison a man in order to sell him the antidote, you don’t boast about it afterward to the victim!

— Robert Silverberg Company Store (1959)

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Source: In Star Science Fiction 5, edited by Frederik Pohl, p. 53
Work: Company Store, 1959
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