“The trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into just two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn.”
Vorkosigan Saga, A Civil Campaign (1999)
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Source: An Alarm to the Unconverted aka A Sure Guide to Heaven (first published 1671), P. 143.

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“Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.”
Smithsonian Magazine, December, 1995.