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Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel Quotes: We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
         

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.


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We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
         



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