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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Night Watch

    People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Guards! Guards!

    Where do you think they've gone?' he said.'Where what?' said Lady Ramkin, temporarily halted.'The dragons. You know. Errol and his wi - female.''Oh, somewhere isolated and rocky, I should imagine,' said Lady Ramkin. 'Favourite country for dragons.''But it - she's a magical animal,' said Vimes. 'What'll happen when the magic goes away?'Lady Ramkin gave him a shy smile.'Most people seem to manage,' she said.She reached across the table and touched his hand.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Snuff

    That just goes to show that you never know, although what it is we never know I suspect we'll never know.
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  4. 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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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Night Watch

    Sometimes it's like watching a wasp land on a stinging nettle: someone's going to get stung and you don't care.
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Thud!

    The important thing is not to shout at this point, Vimes told himself. Do not…what do they call it…go postal? Treat this as a learning exercise. Find out why the world is not as you thought it was. Assemble the facts, digest the information, consider the implications. THEN go postal. But with precision.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Feet of Clay

    It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities. You worked away, patiently asking questions and looking hard at things. You walked and talked, and in your heart you just hoped like hell that some bugger's nerve'd crack and he'd give himself up."
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Night Watch

    Yeah, all right, but everyone knows they torture people," mumbled Sam."Do they?" said Vimes. "Then why doesn't anyone do anything about it?""'cos they torture people.
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