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Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.

— Susan Cooper The Dark Is Rising (1965)

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All knowledge is sacred, but it should not be secret.

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He made the quick apologetic grimace that seemed to be as near as he ever came to a smile.

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That one is so sharp he will cut himself.

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Never dismiss anyone’s value until you know him.

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Nearly every tale that men tell of magic and witches and such is born out of foolishness and ignorance and sickness of mind—or is a way of explaining things they do not understand.

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