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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    ... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat
    book-quotedrinkingdemocracycynicism

  2. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    Sometimes people fools themselves into believing things that aren't true. Sometimes that can be quite dangerous for the person. They see the world in a wrong way. They won't let themselves see that what they believe is wrong. But often there is a part of the mind that does know, and the right words can let it out.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed.'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    She was, in fact, quite a pleasant looking girl, even if her bosom had clearly been intended for a girl two feet taller; but she was not Her. The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to "she was not she," which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    the Ankh-Morpork Trespassers' Society was originally the Explorers' Society until Lord Vetinari forcibly insisted that most of the places 'discovered' by the society's members already had people in them, who were already trying to sell snakes to the newcomers.
    book-quotefunnyhumourexplorers

  7. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    The rising sun managed to peek around the vast column of smoke that forever rose from Ankh-Morpork, City of Cities, illustrating almost up to the edge of space that smoke means progress or, at least, people setting fire to things.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that would be up to no good purpose.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    Well, yes, but it's not about the football.""You're saying that football is not about football?""It's the sharing," she said. "It's being part of the crowd. It's chanting together. It's all of it. the whole thing.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    There are all kinds of darkness, and all kinds of things can be found in them, imprisoned, banished, lost or hidden. Sometimes they escape. Sometimes they simply fall out. Sometimes they just can't take it any more.
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Unseen Academicals

    I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.
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