# Quote — Jack Vance, Trullion: Alastor 2262

> Perhaps you mistake assurance for insolence…Agreed, the qualities sometimes converge.

- Author: [Jack Vance](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance.md)
- Book: [Trullion: Alastor 2262](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262.md)
- Page: 92
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Vance#Trullion:_Alastor_2262_(1973)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262/perhaps-you-mistake

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> “I perceive your ideological bias.”
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> “It is not bias to favor the tried and true ways of the past; it is ordinary common sense.”

p. 144 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262/i-perceive-your.md)

> There’s ample human achievement in the universe, but not nearly enough beauty.

p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262/theres-ample-human.md)

> A troubled society is like a man with a stomach-ache. When he purges himself, he improves.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-vance/trullion-alastor-2262/a-troubled-society.md)