"More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than any other way."

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Source : Glen Cook (2008). “The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company”, p.311, Macmillan

Glen Cook

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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.”
“In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.”
“The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.”
“The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.”
“We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god. Indeed, those who discriminate against nonbelievers flout the principle of religious tolerance that they often profess.”
“The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.”
“I hadn't been that impressed with someone since I worked with Meryl Streep.”

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