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It was long after midnight and the stars looked damp and chilly; the air was full of the busy silence of the night, which is created by hundreds of sm...more

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Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

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If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.

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D’yer see it? This finger, laddie, could send ye to meet yer Maker!”Sgt. Deisenburger stared at the black and purple nail a few inches from his face. ...more

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He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

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It might have interested Newt to know that, of the thirty-nine thousand women tested with the pin during the centuries of witch-hunting, twenty-nine t...more

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I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.”“It’s all right if you’re r...more

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But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.

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You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

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You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumle...more

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Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.“Why don’t we just mix up absolut...more

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I know it’s not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!""My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and l...more

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Letitia! What a name. Halfway between a salad and a sneeze.

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Rincewind picked up a spare paper and read it.It was headed: Examination for the post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative for the District of W'ung.He r...more

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Were you proposing to shoot these people in cold blood, sergeant?""Nossir. Just a warning shot inna head, sir.