““You need money that badly?”
“As a tool, certainly. Its application is simple and universally effective.””

—  Scott Lynch, book The Republic of Thieves

Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 4 “Across the Amathel” section 3 (p. 190)

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