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Few Quotes by Terry Pratchett
- In fact, very few people on the face of the planet know that the very shape of the M25 forms the sigil *odegra* in the…
- Rincewind shivered. He was not, of course, an atheist; on the Disc the gods dealt severely with atheists. On the few occasions when he had…
- The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if…
- She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that…
- His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.
- Money doesn't buy happiness, Gytha." "I only wanted to rent it for a few weeks!
- That's why it's always worth having a few philosophers around the place. One minute it's all is truth beauty and is beauty truth, and does…
- 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,…
- Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.
- History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved…
- Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
- There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse…
- THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR…
- People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't…
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