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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    The night is always old. He'd walked too often down dark streets in the secret hours and felt the night stretching away, and known in his blood that while days and kings and empires come and go, the night is always the same age, always aeons deep. Terrors unfolded in the velvet shadows and while the nature of the talons may change, the nature of the beast does not.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    No-one likes being told it's their lucky day. That sort of thing does not bode well. When someone tells you it's your lucky day, something bad is about to happen.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Colon looked awkward, as if the bunched underwear of the past was tangling itself in the crotch of recollection.
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    Carrot started to clap.It wasn't the clap used by middlings to encourage underlings to applaud overlings. It had genuine enthusiasm behind it which was, somehow, worse.
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    Gentlemen, please," said the Patrician. He shook his head. "Let's have no fighting, please. This is, after all, a council of war.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Why are our people going out there," said Mr. Boggis of the Thieves' Guild. "Because they are showing a brisk pioneering spirit and seeking wealth and … additional wealth in a new land," said Lord Vetinari. "What's in it for the Klatchians?" said Lord Downey. "Oh, they've gone out there because they are a bunch of unprincipled opportunists always ready to grab something for northern," said Lord Vetinari. "A mastery summation, if I may say so, my lord," said Mr. Burleigh. The Patrician looked down again at his notes. "Oh, I do beg your pardon, I seem to have read those last to sentences in the wrong order…
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    They looked up. Someone with a face and apron that said 'barman' in seven hundred languages was standing over them, a wine jug in each hand. "No women in here," he went on. "Why not?" said Nobby. "No women asking questions, neither." "Why not?" "'cos it is written, that's why." "Where'm I supposed to go, then?" The barman shrugged. "Who knows where women go?" "Off you go, Beti," said the Patrician. "And … listen for information!" Nobby grabbed the cup of wine from Colon and gulped it down. "I dunno," he moaned. "I've only been a woman ten minutes and already I hate you male bastards.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Do you need an excuse to have a war? I mean, who for? Can't you just say "You got lots of cash and land, but I've got a big sword, so divvy up right now, chop chop.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure," said Carrot."Really? Well, there's eleven of them.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish," said Constable Visit.The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence."Washpot, are we talking miracles here?" said Reg eventually. "Or just a very slow digestive process?
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    They represented what people called the "international community." And like all uses of the word "community," you were never quite sure what or who it was.
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