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For the past three years, young Wimfort had enjoyed so ample a competence from his parent, that he’d been able to buy his way deep into the mysteries of the arts of Power. He purchased no real understanding, of course, for that’s bought by the coin of toil and thought.

— Michael Shea Nifft the Lean (1982)

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Good soldiers stay alive by being unsentimental and having a quick eye for the main chance.

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