"Quinn ignored the admonition with a verve bordering, Ethan thought, on the anti-social."

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“Permanent justice is well worth a temporary offended protest, I can assure you, Lieutenant.”

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“I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given. They must be taken and the worse the odds and the fiercer the resistance, the greater the honor. Victories can’t be gifts.”

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