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Our lord is a magic lord as we all desired, and magical things have sought him from over there, and they all obey his hests."
"It is so," said all but Gazic. And Gazic rose up in a pause of their gladness.
"Many strange things," he said, "have entered our village, coming from over there. And it may be that human folk are best, and the ways of the fields we know.


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LORD KELVIN Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD I learned very early in my life in Whitehall, the acid test of any political question is; What is th...
LORD TRENT A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the t...
LORD CHESTERFIELD Take the tone of the company you are in.
LORD CHESTERFIELD For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the de...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
LORD MILVERTON Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does...
LORD MORAN A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
LORD DARLING If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion...
LORD CHESTERFIELD The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.
LORD CHESTERFIELD Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.
LORD ALTRINCHAM Hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
LORD BYRON Hatred is the madness of the heart.
LORD BYRON Dreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control.
LORD WEINSTOCK Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sobe...
LORD CHESTERFIELD It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts -- you have no idea of the pain it gives one.
LORD BYRON The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security e...
LORD ACTON Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
LORD ACTON A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
LORD CHESTERFIELD