Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.

Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience; what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror." I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, "History suggests, not until they are made to.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.