“You’ve behaved very highhandedly, Captain Mallory. Is that the custom out here?”

—  C. J. Cherryh , book Downbelow Station

“The custom is, sir, that those who know a situation handle it and those who don’t watch and learn, or get out of the way.”
Book 1, Chapter 4 (p. 34)
Downbelow Station (1981)

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