My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.
("The Once and Future King")
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Might does not make right! Right makes right!
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Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical-as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can't exist.
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