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Be careful, Rahotep, I know these writers, they say “borrow” when they mean “steal.” You will soon read your words coming back to you on some privately circulated scroll of new verse.

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In these dark times people prefer to look away from everything they would rather not see.

It would be another day ruled by this world’s new gods: gold and power.

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Fear, that unknowable and all-powerful enemy, has invaded us all, like a secret army of shadows.

‘Reform of corruption. Civil order to prevent the abuses of power. Justice.’

Book 3: Egypt: The Book of Chaos (2011)

My dear friend, the world is really one vast marketplace. No one cares where a man is from as long as he has gold in his pocket, or something you want.

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