Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 14 (p. 375)
“Sometimes terror and pain are not the best levers; deception, when it works, is the most elegant and least expensive manipulation of all.”
Source: A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), Chapter 14 (p. 145).
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