I don't pretend to be anything but a soldier," growled Galt… - Gordon R. Dickson

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I don't pretend to be anything but a soldier," growled Galt.
"And it's precisely that that makes you dangerous in negotiations," replied William. "Politicians and businessmen always feel more at home with someone who they know doesn't mean what he says. Honest men always have been a curse laid upon the sharpshooter."
"A pity," put in Anea, "that there aren't enough honest men, then, to curse them all.

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Gordon Rupert Dickson (November 1, 1923 – January 31, 2001) was a Canadian-American science fiction writer.

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