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21 " Every crime leaves a financial footprint "
― Lina J. Potter , The Price of Happiness (A Medieval Tale, #5)
22 " It wasn't natural for a person to admit that others might be smarter. "
23 " The king had to buy out the lives of many thousands with his own pain. How easy it was to judge when one didn’t have any responsibility. "
24 " I also loved Jyce. But I don’t have corpses around me. There is a line that one mustn’t cross. Otherwise, the fire would consume them. Those who seek revenge are the first ones to die. "
25 " Any sex, any love affair has to happen outside of work, the hospital or the factory, even if your office is a hut in the tundra. Otherwise, you risk creating an impression that any man can ash his cigarette in your ashtray. "
26 " Kings weren’t ordinary humans. They couldn't afford to get revenge, be happy, love, and hate. "
27 " The crown was a terrible burden. Wearing it demanded the king to commit to terrifying things. Such a life was painful and frightening "
28 " There were things over which men had no power. "
29 " Ladies seek love and gentlemen do business. "
30 " If one state got used to living at the expense of the other, the inevitable result would be their fall. "
31 " Lily was no longer trying to speed up progress. This new world was more tolerant of novelties, and the church tried to cooperate. She would leave new knowledge in the hands of the aldons, except for medicine. Technical progress shouldn't be ahead of ethics and morality. Inventing the telescope would mean the discovery of bacteria and lead to someone coming up with biological weapons. As long as there were wars, people would try to invent weapons. "