Kindle Notes & Highlights
coterie
cloistered
proclivities.
“I believe the actual quotation reads ‘love of money’ is the root of all evil, and that is demonstrably false. There is jealousy, hatred, vengefulness, laziness, selfishness, cruelty, among others—there are many sources of evil. Money makes a fine tool, but a poor master.”
“Indubitably,
phlegmatic
estrus,
interdiction
Another hour dealt with the bureaucratic details, and Straker called an end to the meeting. These things could drag on if allowed.
He makes me better—like a polar star. I don’t have to follow it, but I always know where it stands in the sky.
Aptly describe the two friends' relationship
“Someone once said adventures are other people being miserable, far away.”
“The downfall of monarchies is always in the transition to the next ruler. The throne becomes the prize in a game of politics.”
He recalled the words of one revered Old Earth statesman—something to the effect that if principles lead to destruction, principles must bend.
quisling.”
“There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”
aphorisms
“Gratitude is the shortest-lived of emotions,
