Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
Toast in The Callahan Chronicals (1996) [originally published as Callahan and Company (1988)], Part IV : Earth … and Beyond, "Post Toast", p. 392
“Fortune to many gives too much, enough to none.”
— Martial, book Epigrammata
XII, 10.
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