“Why not alter the habits of a lifetime and speak with candour?”

—  Jack Vance, Lyonesse Trilogy

asked Shimrod. “Truth, after all, need not be only the tactic of last resort.”
Source: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), The Green Pearl (1985), Chapter 17, section 2 (p. 657)

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