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Soldiers get paid sometimes. Bandits have to fend for themselves. But when the warlords don't have the money, their soldier become bandits.

— Malcolm Bosse The Warlord: A Novel (1983)

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"In his country and mine, a bridge builder never sells guns. [...] In China would a scholar sell guns?"

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"You Big Swords think you're good riders, good cavalrymen, but you have a long way to go, and you'll never be Mongols."

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"At the end of the day you want something. Even if you don't know what it is."

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"An acrobat is lucky to die with the price of a coffin in his pocket."

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"In China a general's power goes as far as his troops can march in a few days. But from what I know of General Tang, he won't let this insult pass."

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