"The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other."
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"Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light."
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"Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving"
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"It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do."
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"Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things."
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"Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way."
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"You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope."
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"Insofar as he'd formed any opinion of her, it was that she suffered from misplaced gentility and the mistaken belief that etiquette meant good breeding. She mistook mannerisms for manners."
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"I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is that I don't have to spend most of the day printing out and packaging a manuscript. I think I almost miss that."
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"Nanny Ogg never did any housework herself, but she was the cause of housework in other people."
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"The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners."
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"But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats."
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"This is a lovely party," said the Bursar to a chair, "I wish I was here."
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"Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."
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"This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done."
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"(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends."
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"Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line."
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"It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane."
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"Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was."
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"There have been better attempts at marching, and they have been made by penguins."
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