More quotes by H. Beam Piper
Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions.
A planet could take pretty good care of itself, he thought, if people would only leave it alone.
“Bad luck!” Brannad Klav snorted. “That’s the standing excuse of every incompetent!”
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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
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