“You have something that might be more use to me than either gold or power—something that in fact brings both in its train.”
“And what is that?”

— Tad Williams

The count leaned forward. “Knowledge.”
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 21, “The Frightened Ones” (p. 491).

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