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Now he had learned to control his mouth, but not his brain, and so he let it run on in silence.
No one could remain in Xanth after his twenty-fifth birthday unless he demonstrated a magic talent.
“One day you’ll discover that the opinions of worthless people are worthless,”
The manifest mind of a woman, he realized, made a great deal of difference in her appeal. Lesson for the day.
When illusion became an essential crutch to life, that life lost value.
Bink respected temper; it was a window to the truth at times when little else offered.
the ignorance of isolation breeds unwarranted hostility. Mundania is in many respects more advanced, more civilized than Xanth.
It is the untrustworthy man who distrusts others, because he judges them by himself.
How many people similarly spent their lives searching for their own spells—some gratuitous benefit such as a silver tree or political power or undeserved acclaim—when all they really needed was to be satisfied with
what they already had? Sometimes what they had was better than what they thought they wanted.
And at last Bink understood the meaning of his omen: he was the hawk who had carried away Chameleon. She would never get free.
