Filidor marveled at the intransigence of adolescence, not remembering that he had possessed an abundance of the same quality not many years since. - Matt Hughes

I might have been lulled by her show of confidence, had I not commanded a fact or two about spaceships. “A Grand Itinerator compares to an Aberrator as does a mansion to a country cottage,” I said.
“It is a matter of point of view,” she argued. “It depends on whether one concentrates on differences or congruencies. Being of a broad and generous spirit, I prefer the latter perspective. You may be the type who niggles.”

The commerciants of Olkney were renowned for their egalitarian spirit, judging rich and poor alike solely by the weight of their purses.

"That is unfair," said Filidor.
Gavne shrugged. "Things are as they are. If you quest after justice, young women are the wrong continent to explore. They run more to clemency or spite."