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Quails Quotes

A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.

Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.435

Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

Vernor Vinge, Maureen F. McHugh (1993). “The Tor sf sampler: featuring excerpts from the 1993 Nebula and Hugo nominees : A fire upon the deep by Vernor Vinge and China mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh”