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Certes, if we hanged everyone with a murderer in’s pedigree, not enough would survive to bury the bodies!

— L. Sprague de Camp The Pixilated Peeress (1991)

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All supernaturalism is simply a scheme to enable a class of magicians called priests to live without working.

The Great Fetish (1978)

There is nothing so dangerous as an ignorant and frightened man.

The Great Fetish (1978)

Not even a god, they say, could be at once wise and in love.

An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

One man’s wickedness becomes all men’s curse.

An Elephant for Aristotle (1958)

As all young men must, I was learning the painful lesson that there is no substitute for experience.

The Bronze God of Rhodes (1960)

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