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“I never even liked cats all that much.”
“Surely you realize,” said Patience, “that cats are no great respecters of human opinion.”

— Scott Lynch The Republic of Thieves (2013)

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When you’re a priest, people tend to see the robe rather than the man.

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I have always found the presumptions of others to be the best possible disguise—haven’t you?

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You can’t help being young, but it’s past time that you stopped being stupid.

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