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“The Lover's Maxim
'If you can'r be handsome, be rich. If you can't be roich, be strong. If you can't be strong, be witty'
'What if you can'r be witty?'
'Learn the guitar.”
― Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom

“Most girls take one look at you and swoon. You've never had to really work for someone's affection or put effort into maintaining it. In many ways, your natural gifts have done you a disservice-- they've stunted your sensitivity and charm! You've never had to develop insight into what will make a girl laugh and come to love you for reasons that aren't handsome or heroic. That's why smees are experts on the subtle arts of courtship and seduction; nothing comes easy to us, but we do understand and live by the Lover's Maxim."

"And what on earth is the Lover's Maxim?" asked Maz, feeling very uninformed.

The smee cleared his throat. "If you can't be handsome, be rich. If you can't be rich, be strong. If you cant be strong, be witty."

"But what if you can't be witty?" Max wondered.

"Learn the guitar.”
― Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom

“Some people are born great, but no one is born good. That is a choice they must make for themselves.”
― Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom

“If you can’t spot the sucker, the sucker’s probably you.’ ”
― Henry H. Neff, The Fiend and the Forge

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea. Ideas bring change and people fear change very much.”
― Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege

“War breaks many things...It can break bodies and hearts. It can break promises, too. But it can't break spirits...not if those who are fighting believe in their cause.”
― Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom