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That isn't your real motivation. I know your type. You have a secret passion for justice. Why don't you admit it?" "I have a secret passion for mercy," I said. "But justice is what keeps happening to people.

The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages Pt.1, 41

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract... -- Rhett

Wouldn't you rather play chess, Ma'am?....It's less destructive of clothes.

Good Lord! who can account for the fathomless folly of the public?

Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.

I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories

Where are the fish, though? In the sea they say, in the boats we pray, said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.

He is a man—a man—a man!" snarled the Pack; and most of the wolves began to gather round Shere Khan, whose tail was beginning to switch.

Or ever the knightly years were gone      With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon

Burmese babies—fat, little, brown little divils, as

Lend me thy coat, Shere Khan. Lend me thy gay striped coat that I may go to the Council Rock.

With the knife—with the knife that men use—with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.

Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game.

He was a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail, but quite like a weasel in his head and his habits.

Well give me a cup of English tea, that is all I want,' said Sister Locke. 'Tea isn't English,' snapped Sophie, and Sister Locke was hurt.

I'm afraid startling things are not impossible, Miss Chesney.

Hojo-You sound exactly like bandits, bossing me around. Bandits- That's because we ARE bandits.

Ryoga to Ranma: 'Desperation Strike' my steely buttocks! I thought you were a fighter!

Things like 'world conquest' don't mean very much to me. Isn't a desire to tenaciously pick on a romantic rival easier to understand?

Just to show you how far I was from predicting the accident or suspecting that it could occur-even though, except for Dolores Driscoll, who drove the bus, I was surely the person in town closest to the event, the only eyewitness, you might say-at the moment it occurred I was thinking of fucking Risa Walker.