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  1. Terry Pratchett _ The Long Cosmos

    The truly smart, having discovered they are cleverer than the people around them, soon learn that the smartest thing of all for them to do is to prevent said people from ever finding this out.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Night Watch

    It wasn't a city, it was a process, a weight on the world that distorted the land for hundreds of miles around. People who'd never see it in their whole life nevertheless spent that life working for it. Thousands and thousands of green acres were part of it, forests were part of it. It drew in and consumed… …and gave back the dung from its pens, and the soot from its chimneys, and steel, and saucepans, and all the tools by which its food was made. And also clothes, and fashions, and ideas, and interesting vices, songs, and knowledge, and something which, if looked at in the right light, was called civilization. That was what civilization meant. It meant the city.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ The Color of Magic

    Can't we do anything about it?" - "No!" - "Then I can't see the sense in panicking", said Twoflower calmly
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ The Truth

    ...but William felt in his bones that you couldn't run a city on the basis of what the Watch liked. The Watch would probably like it if everyone spent their time indoors, with their hands on the table where people could see them.
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  5. 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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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Good Omens: The Nice and

    Adam looked at Them. They were his kind of people, too.You just had to decide who your friends really were."
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ The Wee Free Men

    That's No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock, mistress,' said Not-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock. 'Ye were one jock short,' he added helpfully.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ The Truth

    That --ing zombie is going to end up on the end of a couple of --ing handy and versatile kebab skewers,' said Mr Tulip. 'An' then I'm gonna put an edge on this --ing spatula. An' then... then I'm gonna get medieval on his arse.'There were more pressing problems, but this one intrigued Mr Pin.'How, exactly?' he said.'I thought maybe a maypole,' said Mr Tulip reflectively. 'An' then a display of country dancing, land tillage under the three-filed system, several plagues and, if my --ing hand ain't too tired, the invention of the --ing horse collar.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ The Truth

    Are you staying with us? It could be dangerous,' said William, realizing that he was saying this to a vampire iconographer who undied every time he took a picture.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ The Truth

    But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms."
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Night Watch

    Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people.""Yeah, right," said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But I don't do anything about it.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ The Color of Magic

    Hrun the Barbarian, who was practilly an academic by Hub standards in that he could think without moving his lips.
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