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Well, the traveling teachers ...

Well, the traveling teachers do come through every few months," said the Baron. "Yes, sir, I know, sir, and they're useless, sir. They teach facts, not understanding. It's like teaching people about forests by showing them a saw. I want a proper school, sir, to teach reading and writing, and most of all thinking, sir, so people can find what they're good at, because someone doing what they really like is always an asset to any country, and too often people never find out until it's too late.

Terry Pratchett 1410 quotes

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I r...

Ah," said Mr Pin. "Right. I remember. You are concerned citizens." He knew about concerned citizens. Wherever they were, they all spoke the same private language, where 'traditional values' meant 'hang someone'.

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Good or bad, do it as you. To...

Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there's no truth to go back to.

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He'd always known that the wo...

He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies and astronauts and similar. But he'd also had a nagging suspicion that, when you seriously got right down to it, they were all just things in books and didn't properly exist anymore.

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The only really sane person i...

The only really sane person in there is Igor, and possibly the turnip. And I'm not sure about the turnip.

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I would like permission to fe...

I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you never knew your mother because she ran away before you were born. Distinctly remember writing it down in my diary. Would you like another try?' 'Permission to go and find my mother?'

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And we don't often get any wa...

And we don't often get any wading birds in the River Ankh, mainly because the pollution would eat their legs away and anyway, it's easier for them to walk on the surface.

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I mean, you're right about th...

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of them as far as the mind can follow and beyond, league after league of us, flaming swords, all that, well, what I'm trying to say is who has time to go round picking people out and popping them up in the air to sneer at the people dying of radiation sickness on the parched and burning earth below them? If that's your idea of a morally acceptable time, I might add.

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Just because you've got a min...

Just because you've got a mind like a hammer doesn't mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail

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The Chain Letter to the Epheb...

The Chain Letter to the Ephebians. Forget Your Gods. Be Subjugated. Learn to Fear. Do not break the chain -- the last people who did woke up one morning to find fifty thousand armed men on their lawn.

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Hello, inner child, I'm the i...

Hello, inner child, I'm the inner babysitter!

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The point is that descriptive...

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

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The Battle of Koom Valley is ...

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

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Granny was an old-fashioned w...

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

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Probably the last sound heard...

Probably the last sound heard before the Universe folded up like a paper hat would be someone saying, "What happens if I do this?"

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Gods play games with the fate...

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

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She had heard it said that, b...

She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their shoes, which did not make a whole lot of sense, because probably AFTER you had walked a mile in their shoes, you would understand that they were chasing you and accusing you of the theft of a pair of shoes--although, of course, you could probably outrun them, owing to their lack of footwear.

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Belief sloshes around in the ...

Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example. They clearly must be created by their own believers, because a brief resume of the lives of most gods suggests that their origins certainly couldn't be divine. They tend to do exactly the things people would do if only they could, especially when it comes to nymphs, golden showers, and the smiting of your enemies.

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The people of Ankh-Morpork ha...

The people of Ankh-Morpork had a straightforward, no-nonsense approach to entertainment, and while they were looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing someone being baked alive in his own armour. You didn't get the chance every day to see someone baked alive in their own armour. It would be something for the children to remember.

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And, as always happens, and h...

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.

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