"It would have been grand to live then!"
"When? In days of the formation of the Empire?"
"Exactly! Every rock or bush, you perceive, might conceal an ambuscade. Every chance meeting might lead to mortal combat. Every-"
"But that is exactly what we face today," observed Piro.
"Well, that is true. But then they were building an Empire."
"How, is that not what we are doing here?"
~Paths of the Dead, by Steven Brust
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