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The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

— T. H. White The Once and Future King (1958)

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The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

The Godstone and the Blackymor (1959)

The best thing for being sad … is to learn something.

The Sword in the Stone (1963)

God is love, the bishops tell.
Yes, I know, But love is hell.

God is love, the parson whined.
Yes, and is he also blind?

The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

England Have My Bones (1936)

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Poul Anderson The Corridors of Time (1965)

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