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Clearly this was no time to ask if they should first define their terms. Nor, for that matter, had Socrates had to define the bowl of hemlock.

— Avram Davidson Vergil in Averno (1987)

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But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.

Masters of the Maze (1965)

Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.

Masters of the Maze (1965)

In life, if not in literature, there is always anticlimax.

Sleep Well of Nights (1978)

Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

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