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“Broken oaths are bad luck eggs.”
That was so weird, I did not know what to say. So I said, “Eggs?”
“They hatch bad luck.”

— John C. Wright Orphans of Chaos (2005)

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Everyone loses in war, even the winners.

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You have reached that unfortunate age where you have all of life’s answers and you know everything more perfectly and more profoundly than your elders.

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Need I say that, if the universe is destroyed, it is unlikely that the British Isles will be preserved?

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