“Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so.”

—  David Gemmell, book The King Beyond the Gate

White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.
Source: Drenai series, The King Beyond the Gate, Ch. 10

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