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“I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on,” Temeraire said. “I do not mind the deck.”
both praise and affection, from the highest source imaginable, and it filled him with fresh determination to prove worthy of the encomium.
he thought how little the rest of the world should matter to him, when he was secure in the good opinion of those he valued most, and in the knowledge that he was doing his duty.
“I am sure we will be able to puzzle it out together, whatever it is.”
“You may as well say, that if a creature will not serve people, and learn their habits, it is not intelligent, and had just as well be killed,”
“It is not fair that we should be thus restricted by others’ fears, when we have not done anything wrong; you must see it is so, Laurence.”
You may find it slow going,” he added to Temeraire, “if you mean to assert your own: men with powers and privileges rarely like to share them.”
“Justice is expensive,” Tharkay said. “That is why there is so little of it, and that reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.”
“When you are very hungry, my dear, it is hard for your ambitions to rise above your belly,”