Ellen Kushner - Money Quotes

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I was afraid you wouldn't take me seriously.
I did. But I am preparing, the duke said, to revise that opinion. Stop playing and tell me what you want.
And you'll give it to me?
What do you think? If it's reasonable, I'll consider it. If it's not, I have the resources to annoy you very much as you've been annoying me. It's true I have more scruples—but I'm willing to suspend them. I also have more money, you see—lots more money. I wasn't planning to waste any of it on you, but I could be convinced to change my mind.

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You founded the place. Why don't you want to go?
I don't like children, the duke replied.
Then why put out all that money to preserve them?
Because it is wrong to let them die.

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