““You founded the place. Why don’t you want to go?”
“I don’t like children,” the duke replied.
“Then why put out all that money to preserve them?”
“Because it is wrong to let them die.””

—  Ellen Kushner, book The Privilege of the Sword

Source: The Privilege of the Sword (2006), Part I, Chapter VIII, (p. 79)

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