The Director, in Ch 10
Brave New World (1932)
“There was one temporal power greater than the greatest sorcery. Greed.”
—
Glen Cook
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book
Soldiers Live
Source: Soldiers Live (2000), Chapter 23, “Glittering Stone: Fortress with No Name” (p. 448)
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