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Book cover for The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1)

The Colour of Magic (Discworld, #1) by Terry Pratchett

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At the Temple of the Seven-Handed Sek a hasty convocation of priests and ritual heart-transplant artisans agreed that the hundred-span-high statue of Sek was altogether too holy to be made into a magic picture, but a payment of two rhinu ...more

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“You should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.”
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“A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.”
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“That was the difference between a hero and a villain, a soldier and a murderer, a victory and a crime. Which side of a river you called home.”
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“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

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