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“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.”
― The Monikins
― The Monikins
“It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”
― The Martyrdom of Man
― The Martyrdom of Man
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“And since he cannot spend and use aright
The little time here given him in trust,
But wasteth it in weary undelight
Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust,
He naturally claimeth to inherit
The everlasting Future, that his merit
May have full scope; as surely is most just.”
― The City of Dreadful Night
The little time here given him in trust,
But wasteth it in weary undelight
Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust,
He naturally claimeth to inherit
The everlasting Future, that his merit
May have full scope; as surely is most just.”
― The City of Dreadful Night
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