Order was what regular people wanted. Order and security were necessary before prosperity could take hold. The political crap, the who is going to be in charge, did not matter to most folks.
Over coming days, when I sneaked down to the Buskin, he revealed everything recorded where he appears as the focal character. I do not think I have met many men who disgusted me more. Nastier
Part of winning is a downdeep certainty that, no matter how bad things look, a road to victory will open.
People don’t want to be told to do right. They don’t really want to do right. They want to do whatever they want—and whine that it’s not fair, it’s not their fault, when it comes time to pay the piper...
Fright tends to fatten up on ignorance
Quite unwittingly I saved the lives of twenty enemies of the Stranglers scheduled to be tortured and murdered during the night. The priests freed them to tell the world that the Deceivers were real an...
The common wisdom among former grunts is that competent generals wouldn’t have screwed up so bad they got themselves killed and therefore there wouldn’t have been any need for a memorial. Soldiers are...
Relway mused, Now that it’s happened I’m not so sure I’m happy with the outcome. Spared their racial theories The Call would’ve been good for TunFaire. He would appreciate their interest in law and or...
Second, the Stupidity Test. It’s unnecessary to invoke complex, convoluted conspiracy theories where plain old human stupidity suffices as an explanation.
Seems to know you, the Captain observed. He thought I was dead. Jalena rejoined his party. He gabbled and pointed. Pale-faced men looked our way. They argued briefly, then the whole lot fled the garde...
She is the darkness.
Singe stopped. You are quite right about Medford Shale, Garrett. Great-uncle Medford had figured prominently in the case where I’d first made Singe’s acquaintance. Just as you were right about me need...
Singed, he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, That’s what I meant to do all along.
Smeds could see the shadow of the future. Get Old Man Fish and Timmy Locan to kype the spike. Get dumb old Smeds to croak them when they do. Then take the loot and walk. Who is Smeds going to complain...
Still, the best augurs are those who divine from the portents of the past. They compile phenomenal records.
That is something I like to look at with any villain. What twists and knots went into the thread tying the creature at Charm to the little girl who was? Consider little children. There are not many of...
The price of order, I muttered. I tried to run the dog off. It wouldn’t budge.The cost of chaos, Tom-Tom countered. on his drum. Not quite the same thing, Croaker.
Troublesome as females are when they step out of their proper roles as connivers, manipulators, gossips, backstabbers, and bearers and nurturers of the young, slaughtering them is not an acceptable fo...
Thunderheads with lightning swords aflash on their brows grumbled and pounded the badlands, reminding me that trouble was not far away.
There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.
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