She knew that life was but a long struggle against disorder, and that disorder was the inevitable winner. - Tad Williams

If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field?

A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.

It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that."
"Ob...obseek...?"
"Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: 'Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.'