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Suppose Sisyphus to have been acquitted his need of forever toiling up his hill in Hell, would he have made the last journey in joy? Or would mere fatigue have extinguished all other emotion, as a torch extinguished in a sconce?

— Avram Davidson Vergil in Averno (1987)

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But the Red Man denied that time, though it must always be paid for, could always be paid for in money.

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I can tell you that only a fool destroys useful things merely because he doesn’t like them.

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Experience may be a bitter teacher, but She is a good one.

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Rumor, I fear, is scarcely as accurate as he is rapid.

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