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"Gentlemen, no fighting please. This is, after all, a council of war. (p. 26)"
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"And there, right there, was the drawback of being a witch. Here was a person whose mere existence had led Tiffany, one evening, to wonder about that whole business of sticking pins into a wax figure. She hadn’t actually done it, because it was some thing that you shouldn’t do, something that witches greatly frowned on, and because it was cruel and dangerous, and above all because she hadn’t been able to find any pins."
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Discworld is a collection of fantasy comedy novels, graphic novels, short stories, and associated works conceived and primarily written by the English author Terry Pratchett. They are united by their being set on the Discworld, a flat planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle. The novel series consists of forty-one books, the first being The C
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"It has been said that crowds are stupid, but mostly they are simply confused, since as an eyewitness the average person is as reliable as a meringue lifejacket. (p. 103)"
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"“Yes, but what do you do? And have you been doing more of it in the past six months than in the previous six?” “Well, if we’re asking that kind of question, Archchancellor, what do you do?” said the Dean testily. “I administer, Dean,” said Ridcully calmly. “Then we must be doing something, otherwise you’d have nothing to administrate.” “That comment strikes at the very heart of the bureaucratic principle, Dean, and I shall ignore it.”"
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"The big trouble," he added, "is that everyone wants someone else to read their minds for them and then make the world work properly. (p. 227)"
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"The class was learning about some revolt in which some peasants had wanted to stop being peasants and, since the nobles had won, had stopped being peasants really quickly. (p. 39)"
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"Lord Vetinari represented stability. It was a cold and clinical kind of stability, but part of his genius was the discovery that stability was what people wanted more than anything else."
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