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Mort (Discworld, #4, Death, #1)

by Terry Pratchett

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Snuff (Discworld, #39) by Terry Pratchett

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‘That would be Long Tom, Short Tom and Tom Tom,’ said Jiminy, reaching for some mugs. ‘Decent lads – triplets, as it happens. They earn their keep but, as you might say, they shared one brain out between all three of them and it wasn’t that ...more

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“Ah," said Mrs. Poyser, "an' it's poor work allays settin' the dead above the livin'. We shall all on us be dead some time, I reckon—it 'ud be better if folks 'ud make much on us beforehand, i'stid o' beginnin' when we're gone. It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crop.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

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“It's brother and sister to me, and aunts, and company, and food and drink, and (naturally) washing. It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“But on safe opportunities, she had an indirect mode of making her negative wisdom tell upon Dorothea, and calling her down from her rhapsodic mood by reminding her that people were staring, not listening.”
― George Eliot, George Eliot: The Complete Works

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“Trust to me, my boy, trust to me. I've got no wife to worm it out of me and then run out and cackle it in everybody's hearing. If you trust a man, let him be a bachelor—let him be a bachelor.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

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“Probably more refugees, sir.’ ‘Ye gods, we’ve got no more room! Why do they keep coming here?’ ‘In search of a better life, sir, I think.’ ‘A better life?’ said Vimes. ‘Here?’ ‘I think things are worse where they come from, sir,’ said Carrot. ‘What kind of refugees are we talking about here?’ ‘Mostly human, sir.’ ‘Do you mean that most of them will be human, or that each individual will be mostly human?’ said Vimes.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

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