One Corpse Too Many (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael, #2)

by Ellis Peters

Your thoughts are safe in your head, best keep them there.”

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life could only be sustained by refusing to let it be disrupted, by war, catastrophe or death.

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as empty as a beggar’s palm.

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we’ll go pray for the souls of those quitting this world. But all of us quit it at last, by whatever way,

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it always is, he thought, to relieve another you must burden yourself.