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Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
Personal affection is a luxury you can have only after all your enemies are eliminated. Until then, everyone you love is a hostage, sapping your courage and corrupting your judgment.
Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
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- Orson Scott Card
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- Approximate author period: c. 1951 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1951; activity date not established; Wikidata Q217110, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217110 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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