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“I wonder what’s the difference between ordinary councillors and privy councillors?’ wondered the merchant aloud. The assassin scowled at him. ‘I think,’ he said, ‘it is because you’re expected to eat shit.’ He”
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― Guards! Guards!
“And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. ‘Ulla! Ulla!’ We”
― The Massacre of Mankind
― The Massacre of Mankind
“Well, we decided to have a bite, so I sent Nobby out to the baker’s, see, and, well, we fought the prisoner ought to have something to eat . . .’ ‘Yes?’ said Vimes encouragingly. ‘Well, when Nobby asked him if he wanted his figgin toasted, he just give a scream and ran off.”
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“You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless, and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. The”
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― Guards! Guards!
“You happened to find the Tezumen one day and decided, I think I recall your words correctly, that they were ‘a bunch of Stone-Age no-hopers sitting around in a swamp being no trouble to anyone’, am I right? Whereupon you entered the mind of one of their high priests—I believe at that time they worshipped a small stick—drove him insane and inspired the tribes to unite, terrorise their neighbours and bring forth upon the continent a new nation dedicated to the proposition that all men should be taken to the top of ceremonial pyramids and be chopped up with stone knives.” The King pulled his notes towards him. “Oh yes, some of them were also to be flayed alive,” he added. Quezovercoatl”
― Eric
― Eric
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