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The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone.

— Eric Rücker Eddison The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

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"So flieth folly before wisdom which is in wine," said the King. "The night is young: bring me botargoes, and caviare and toast."

The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

Art thou so deeply read in nature and her large philosophy, and I am yet to teach thee that deadliest hellebore or the vomit of a toad are qualified poison to the malice of a woman?

The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.

Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! he payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?

Mistress of Mistresses (1935)

"And at the last, howsoe'er we shape our course, cometh the poppy that abideth all of us by the harbour of oblivion hard to cleanse. Dry withered leaves of laurel or of cypress tree, and a little dust. Nought else remaineth."

The Worm Ouroboros (1922)

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