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The royal personages were watched with care; their habits were discussed and analysed a dozen times a day. Queen Sollace showed great cordiality to religious zealots and priests, and found much of interest in their creeds. She was thought
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“Wenn du wissen willst, wie ein Mensch ist, dann sieh dir genau an, wie er seine Untergebenen behandelt, nicht die Gleichrangigen.«”
― Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
― Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch
“Consider the roots of a simple and mundane action, for instance, buying bread for your breakfast. A farmer has grown the grain in a field carved from wilderness by his ancestors; in the ancient city a miller has ground the flour and a baker prepared the loaf; the vendor has transported it to your house in a cart built by a cartwright and his apprentices. Even the donkey that draws the cart, what stories could she not tell if you could decipher her braying? And then you yourself hand over a coin of copper dug from the very heart of the earth, you who have risen from a bed of dreams and darkness to stand in the light of the vast and terrifying sun. Are there not a thousand strands woven together into this tapestry of a morning meal? How then can you expect that the omens of great events should be easy to unravel? The Pseudo-Iamblichus Scroll”
― A Time of Omens
― A Time of Omens
“It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“Conan stared at the hand holding the pendant. The grim god of his Cimmerian northcountry, Crom, Lord of the Mound, gave a man only life and will. What he did with them, or failed to do, was up to him alone. Life and will.”
― Conan Chronicles 1
― Conan Chronicles 1
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
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