Jack Vance Quote

It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.

Chapter 2, section 3, "The Ocean of Sighs" - Quotations and text from the Dying Earth novels - Cugel's Saga (1983)

It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.

It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.

It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.

It was right and proper to exploit the excellences of the moment, but still, when conditions reached an apex, there was nowhere to go but down.