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Recall the instructor at the Academy: “What is Man, young aspirants? Man is an animal that trades…”

— Avram Davidson Rork! (1965)

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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.

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

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

Masters of the Maze (1965)

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

Masters of the Maze (1965)

In life, if not in literature, there is always anticlimax.

Sleep Well of Nights (1978)

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

The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969)

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