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It was just as Mandrag said: Nine tenths of alchemy was chemistry. And nine tenths of chemistry was waiting.

Answers were always important, but they were seldom easy.

She looked at me. Looked away. “You think too much of me.”

I smiled. “Perhaps you think too little of yourself.”

Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Nothing makes a man feel older than a young woman.

Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.

The truth was, I needed to impress them. I knew from my previous discussions with Ben that you needed money or brains to get into the University. The more of one you had, the less of the other you needed.

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter how you spend your life, your wit will defend you more often than a sword. Keep it sharp!

Oh it seemed sensible. Oh yes. Certainly. But she knew what seeming was worth in the end, didn’t she?

It exasperated her, but she knew better than to force the world to bend to her desire.

She indulged herself from time to time. It helped remind her she was truly free.