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"Peasants can fool you They give in like sheep. They run away and hide. They offer their daughters if you'll let them alone. But suddenly one of them does a thing like this [and tries to kill you]."

— Malcolm Bosse The Warlord: A Novel (1983)

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"In his country and mine, a bridge builder never sells guns. [...] In China would a scholar sell guns?"

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"You Big Swords think you're good riders, good cavalrymen, but you have a long way to go, and you'll never be Mongols."

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"At the end of the day you want something. Even if you don't know what it is."

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"An acrobat is lucky to die with the price of a coffin in his pocket."

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Soldiers get paid sometimes. Bandits have to fend for themselves. But when the warlords don't have the money, their soldier become bandits.

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