Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it. The Grapes of Wrath
"He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal." The Name of The Rose
Finally I realized that I was a demi-god and that I was beyond all the low, petty desires of mankind. I felt the eternal flux within me. What is eternity? Eternity for me was playing hide-and-seek with that whore on the banks of the Suren river; it was a momentary closing of my eyes when I hid my head in her lap. The Blind Owl
Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The Fellowship of the Ring
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