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“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
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H. Beam Piper
#Warrior Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Bars Quotes
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“You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.22, eStar Books
#Hands Quotes
#Giving Quotes
#Trying Quotes
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“English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.”
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H. Beam Piper
#Men Quotes
#Arms Quotes
#Barmaids Quotes
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“Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.
#Texas Quotes
#Excess Quotes
#Killing Quotes
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“I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : H. Beam Piper (2015). “Four-Day Planet: Science Fiction Stories”, p.9, 谷月社
#Ideas Quotes
#Sick Quotes
#Looks Quotes
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“Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : H. Beam Piper (2011). “Space Viking”, p.4, The Floating Press
#Motivation Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.”
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H. Beam Piper
#Disease Quotes
#Sanity Quotes
#Contagious Quotes
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“Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : H. Beam Piper (2010). “A Slave Is a Slave”, p.5, eStar Books
#Prayer Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
#Apathy Quotes
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“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : H. Beam Piper (2015). “Little Fuzzy: Science Fiction Stories”, p.21, 谷月社
#Two Quotes
#Alcohol Quotes
#Together Quotes
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“I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”
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H. Beam Piper
#Dark Quotes
#Night Quotes
#Want Quotes
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“Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.”
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H. Beam Piper
Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper and John J. McGuire, 1958.
#Powerful Quotes
#Rich Quotes
#Poor Quotes
