# Quote — Murray Leinster, The Pirates of Zan

> It couldn’t happen! Hoddan couldn’t conceive of such a thing. But a recently developed pessimism suggested that since everything else, to date, had been to his disadvantage, this was probably a catastrophe also.

- Author: [Murray Leinster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster.md)
- Book: [The Pirates of Zan](https://www.leafyquotes.com/murray-leinster/the-pirates-of-zan.md)
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> There was a beautiful row. You’ve really scared people, Hoddan! You deserve well of the republic! Every government and every person needs to be thoroughly terrified occasionally. It limbers up the brain.

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> He irritably suspected himself of a tendency to make enemies unnecessarily.

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> The hearts of the rich are hardened. The existence of the poor is a reproach to them.

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