Revenge is not an ignoble motive, when it works to a productive end. - Jack Vance

“While we were gone someone broke into my case and stole most of my things.”
The news seemed to drive Skorlet close to the limits of self-control. “And what do you expect?” she snapped in an unpleasantly harsh voice. “This is an egalistic country; why should you have more than anyone else?”
“I have been over-egalized,” said Jantiff drily. “To the effect that I now have less than anyone else.”

"The folk are peculiar in many ways," said Erwig. "They preen themselves upon the gentility of their habits, yet they refuse to whitewash their hair, and they are slack in their religious observances. For instance, they make obeisance to Divine Wiulio with the right hand, not on the buttock, but on the abdomen, which we here consider a slipshod practice. What are your own views?"
"The rite should be conducted as you describe," said Cugel. "No other method carries weight."
Erwig refilled Cugel's glass. "I consider this an important endorsement of our views!"

Are musicians unlike other men? Beget and forget, that’s how it goes.