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[M]agic can't operate without a magician, and being a magician can beat a man to his knees.

— Susan Howatch

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'He wasn't just being selfish, he was being realistic. Marriage would have been very difficult if not downright impossible.'

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Kester wrote about people and since human nature doesn't change his observations hadn't dated.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

'Bloody men! sometimes I feel I hate them all.'

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Recovering from an ill-starred romance is, after all, to anyone of sufficient will-power and self-respect, purely an attitude of mind.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

Man cannot live on charm alone, and an ambitious man cannot live on anything less than wealth, good social connections and substantial political influence.

The Wheel of Fortune (1984)

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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