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"You scrimped and saved to send them to the best schools, and then they went and paid you back by getting educated. (p. 100)"
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"Those first pyramids had been built by human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium, who had cut rocks into pieces and then painfully put them back together again in a better shape. (p. 96)"
Pyramids (novel)
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Pyramids is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, published in 1989, the seventh book in his Discworld series. It won the BSFA Award for Best Novel in 1989.
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