When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much w — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much w — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much w — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much w — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much w — Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
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When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

— Tad Williams, The Dragonbone Chair
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