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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    He'd forgotten the ancient wisdom: take care, when you are closely observing, that you are not closely observed.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    There was no himself in himself.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Is that all, sir? Only we've got stuff to finish before our knocking-off time, you see, and if we stay late we have to make more money to pay our overtime, and if the lads is a bit tired we ends up earning the money faster'n we can make it, which leads to a bit of what I can only call a conundrum-""You mean that if you do overtime you have to do more overtime to pay for it?" said Moist, still pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it."That's right, sir," said Shady. "And down that road madness lies.""It's a very short road," said Moist, nodding.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Igor?' said Moist. 'You have an Igor?'Oh, yes,' said Hubert. 'That's how I get this wonderful light. They know the secret of storing lightning in jars! But don't let that worry you, Mr Lipspick. Just because I'm employing an Igor and working in a cellar doesn't mean I'm some sort of madman, ha ha ha!'Ha ha,' agreed Moist.Ha hah hah!,' said Hubert. 'Hahahahahaha!! Ahahahahahahhhhh!!!!!-'Bent slapped him on the back. Hubert coughed.Sorry about that, it's the air down here,' he mumbled.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?""Only a man would think of that.It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    They were indeed what was known as 'old money', which meant that it had been made so long ago that the black deeds which had originally filled the coffers were now historically irrelevant. Funny, that: a brigand for a father was something you kept quiet about, but a slave-taking pirate for a great-great-great-grandfather was something to boast of over the port. Time turned the evil bastards into rogues, and rogue was a word with a twinkle in its eye and nothing to be ashamed of.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Mr Lipwig, there's a lady in the hall to see you and we've thanked her for not smoking three times and she's still doing it!
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Making Money

    Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.
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