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

— Avram Davidson Masters of the Maze (1965)

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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.

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

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