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"People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of revolution were faced with the age-old problem: It wasn't that you had the wrong government, you had the wrong people."
— Aug 03, 2025 05:56AM
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"Coppers were always outnumbered. So, being a copper only worked when people let it work. If they were refocused and realized that you were just another standard idiot with a pennyworth of metal for a badge, you could end up a smear on the pavement."
— Aug 03, 2025 05:59AM
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"A new Patrician will need new friends, farsighted people who want to be a part of a wonderful future. One that's good for business. That's how it goes. Meetings in rooms. A little diplomacy, a little give and take, a promise here, an understanding there. That's how real revolutions happen. All that stuff in the streets is just froth..."
— Aug 02, 2025 09:44AM
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"'Certainly not! I sometimes put it in the safe at weekends, but I'm... sure I didn't do that last night.' Vimes noted the subtle uncertainty. He was doing a bad thing, he knew. Tilden was nearly seventy. At a time like that, a man learned to treat his memory as only a rough guide to events. 'I find, sir, that when a busy man has a lot on his plate he can do things subsequently slip his mind,' he said, 'I know I do'"
— Jul 09, 2025 03:43AM
Farnham Calkins
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"He, though, started in the wrong place. He didn't look around and watch and learn, and then say, 'This is how people are, how do we deal with it?' No, he sat and thought: 'This is how the people ought to be, how do we change them?' And that was a good enough thought for a priest, but not for a copper."
— Jul 09, 2025 02:42AM
Farnham Calkins
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"Probably he ought to feel proud of his younger self, but he didn't (...) If you are going to be me, it's going to take a lot of work. Thirty damn years of being hammered on the anvil of life, you poor bastard. You've got it all to come."
— Jul 09, 2025 01:50AM
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"The garden didn't get much proper light. Gardens like this never did. You got second-hand light once the richer folk in the taller buildings had finished with it."
— Jul 09, 2025 01:36AM
