"The town’s lack of special quirks was almost a peculiarity in itself."

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“Evidently you do not trust me. This does not predispose me to trust you.”

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“My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.”

““Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?” asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”

“I suspect that the word was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

“Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.”

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— Tipu Sultan

Music1973

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— Paul Mattick

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