It would take an entire nation a thousand years to build something this vast. No monument so huge can be a good thing.” "I don't understand.” "Only a very great evil could remain so single of purpose, so uncaring of cost, as to create something so ultimately useless.
Glen CookRelated topics
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To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers, but extremely fit for a nation that is governed by shopkeepers.
Adam Smith
When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.
Lu Xun
