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An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.


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She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.



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Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, “but a gentleman never would.



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There must come a time when the bullets will run out



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I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.



I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense.



Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.



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All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.



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And the name of the one shall be Fearfulness. And the name of the other shall be Arrogance... Well, clearly you are not Fearfulness, so I suppose you must be Arrogance.' This was not very polite.





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