"You did something because it had always been……" — Terry Pratchett
"You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was, ‘But we’ve always done it this way.’ A million dead people can’t have been wrong, can they?"
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1,149 Quotes by Terry Pratchett
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One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
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