“I hope that this assignment will not prove an inconvenience,” Doc continued.
“All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.”

— Neal Stephenson , book Seveneves

“Five Thousand Years Later” (p. 648)
Seveneves (2015), Part Three

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“I hope that this assignment will not prove an inconvenience,” Doc continued.
“All duty is inconvenient to a greater or lesser degree, or it would not be duty.”