“One can act too much in the cause of self-preservation and experience nothing fresh as a result.”
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 2 (p. 25)
“Nothing can be preserved that is not good.”
In Praise of Books (1860)
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