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“What have you seen since last you looked on me?”
He said, “Misery and want, and fear, and death. I saw a beggar begging for help from a muddy stream. He told me it was as much use to do that as to beg help of heaven.”

— Tanith Lee Delirium's Mistress (1986)

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If she had supposed the gods ever listened, she would have prayed.

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The grape of truth is often bitter, but not to taste it in its season would be to waste the vine.

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