You know, it's quite all right to give the underdog a hand, but only one hand. Keep the other hand on your pistol - or he'll try to eat the one you gave him!
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drink… - H. Beam Piper
Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drink…
- H. Beam Piper
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politici… - H. Beam Piper
Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politici…
Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease. - H. Beam Piper
Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself. - H. Beam Piper
I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results. - H. Beam Piper
English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master. - H. Beam Piper
Keep a goverment poor and weak and it's your servant; when it is rich and powerful it becomes your master.
I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died. - H. Beam Piper
I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer. - H. Beam Piper
Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.
And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means. - H. Beam Piper
And when someone makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means.
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