"I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors."
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"Quick, someone's coming! Look real!"
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"Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble."
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"An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life."
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"It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag."
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"Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact."
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"Did I do anything last night that suggested I was sane?"
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"The best research is the research that you don't know that you are doing."
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"Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive."
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"Winners never talk about glorious victories. Thats because they're the ones who see what the battle field looks like afterwards. Its only the losers who have glorious victories."
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"Always face what you fear. Have just enough money, never too much, and some string. Even if it’s not your fault, it’s your responsibility. Witches deal with things. Never stand between two mirrors. Never cackle. Do what you must do. Never lie, but you don’t always have to be honest. Never wish. Especially don’t wish upon a star, which is astronomically stupid. Open your eyes, and then open your eyes again."
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"The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight."
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"Oh, there's plenty of reasons. I just don't know which one."
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"Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics."
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"Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits."
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"The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity."
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"Evil in general does not sleep, and therefore doesn't see why anyone else should."
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"All property is theft, except mine."
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"I [...] vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death."
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"Consider the situation. There you are, forehead like a set of balconies, worrying about the long-term effects of all this new 'fire' stuff on the environment, you're being chased and eaten by most of the planet's large animals, and suddenly tiny versions of one of the worst of them wanders into the cave and starts to purr."
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