1. "Good music always defeats bad luck."
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Quote by Jack Vance
2. "While we are alive we should sit among colored lights and taste good wines, and discuss our adventures in far places; when we are dead, the opportunity is past."
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Quote by Jack Vance
3. "Law cannot reach where enforcement will not follow. —Popular aphorism."
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Quote by Jack Vance
4. "Beauty is a luster which love bestows to guile the eye. Therefore it may be said that only when the brain is without love will the eye look and see no beauty."
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Quote by Jack Vance
5. "Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic."
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Quote by Jack Vance
6. "Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted."
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Quote by Jack Vance
7. "We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any."
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8. "I am a dull fellow...my person reeks, my conversation consists of insipid platitudes."
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9. "Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit."
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Quote by Jack Vance
10. "It is an unthinkable discrepancy that fifty-four men should consume the food intended for fifty-three."
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Quote by Jack Vance