"Everyone who is grieved at anything, or discontented, is like a pig for sacrifice, kicking and squealing. Like a dove for sacrifice is he who laments in silence. Our one distinction is that it is given to us to consent, if we will, to the necessity imposed upon us."
Gene Wolfe

January 1, 1970

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Volume 2, Ch. 2

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe