Jack Vance Quotes on Value
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All is mutability, and thus your three hundred terces has fluctuated to three.
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My talismans are not obviously useless.
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'What are your fees?' inquired Guyal cautiously. 'I respond to three questions,' stated the augur. 'For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.' - From 'Guyal of Sfere', The Dying Earth.