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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    It was always cheaper to build a new 33-MegaLith circle than upgrade an old slow one.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    The price for being the best is always... having to be the best.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    We {people} only remembered that elves sang. But we forgot what they sang about.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    There are very few starts. Oh, some things seem to be beginnings. The curtain goes up, the first pawn moves, the first shot is fired - but that's not the start. The play, the game, the war is just a little window on a ribbon of events that may extend back thousands of years. The point is, there's always something before. It's always a case of Now Read On.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    Don't be ridiculous, man," said Ridcully, "there's no such thing as dwarf smuggling.""Yeah? Then what's that you've got there?""I'm a giant," said Casanunda."Giants are a lot bigger.""I've been ill.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    It was here that the thaum, hitherto believed to be the smallest possible particle of magic, was succesfully demonstrated to be made up of /resons/ {Lit.: 'Thing-ies'} or reality fragments. Currently research indicates that each reson is itself made up of a combination of at least five 'flavours', known as 'up', 'down', 'sideways', 'sex appeal' and 'peppermint'.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    Humans are always slightly lost. It's a basic characteristic.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    I could hear you not saying anything! You've got the loudest silences I ever did hear from anyone who wasn't dead!
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    She wore so much thick white makeup in order to conceal her naturally rosy complexion that if she turned around suddenly her face would probably end up on the back of her head.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    A bad hunter chases, a good hunter waits.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Lords and Ladies

    You couldn't set out to be a good witch or a bad witch. It never worked for long. All you could try to be was a witch, as hard as you could.
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