"There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way."
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Source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.72, Random House
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