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The righteous will claim sole domain on judgment. The righteous are the first to make hands into fists, the first to shout down dissenters, the first to bully others into compliance.

— Steven Erikson Toll the Hounds (2008)

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The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

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Paran shook his head, his only surprise the realization that nothing surprised him anymore.

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“The dead never interrupt,” said the mason, “they but arrive.”

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He who would dominate must learn early that those resisting his command should be destroyed.

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“The mewling, petty acts,” he’d say, “of a short-lived and short-sighted species, Crokus, can do nothing to mar the Great Cycles of Life.”

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