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““Vimes thought for a moment and said, 'Well, dear, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a man with a lot of wood must be in want of a wife who can handle a great big--””

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You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you.

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Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes.

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A hardback's harder at Christmas time because that's a good hardback buying time.

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“There were more old people. The world was full of them,' said the wizard. 'Yes, I know. And now it's full of young people.…

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“Hobson was big and heavyset, but not exactly fat; he was probably what you’d get if you shaved a bear.”

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Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

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“The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.”

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“At last, the details finally settled, Abbey found herself coming to terms with the inevitable: the whole lot of them would go to Cape…

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“I don't approve of surprises. The pleasure is never enhanced and the inconvenience is considerable.”

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“Your powers of observation are formidable," Michael says and Darien giggles behind one perfectly manicured hand, like some sort of preppie geisha.”

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