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It was a mystery to her why Death had started using the place. Of course, he did have many of the qualities of a gentleman: he had a place in the country--a far, dark country--was unfailingly punctual, was courteous to all those he met--and sooner or later he met everyone--was well if soberly dressed, at home in any company and, proverbially, a good horseman.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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Here and there huge patches of fungi, luminous with decay, cast a faint glow over the ancient stonework.* *It didn't need to. Cuddy, belonging to a race that worked underground for preference, and Detritus, a member of a race notoriously nocturnal, had excellent vision in the dark. But mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark. Strange but true.

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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'You are armigerous, Nobby.' Nobby nodded. 'But I got a special shampoo for it, sir.'

Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay

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A penny could drop through wet cement faster than it could drop for Fred Colon.

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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Does Mr Vimes know you’re doing this?’ ‘He sort of knows, yes. I said I’d like to start a club for the street kids and he said it was fine provided I took them camping on the edge of some really sheer cliff somewhere in a high wind. But he always says things like that. And I’m sure we wouldn’t have him any other way.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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‘You’re humming, Sam,’ said Sybil, after a while. ‘That means something awful is going to happen to somebody.’

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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He was certain he was anorectic, because every time he looked in a mirror he saw a fat man. It was the Archchancellor, standing behind him and shouting at him.

Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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He glanced at the ground, and experienced that peculiar sensation known only to the recently dead--horror at what you see lying in front of you, followed by the nagging question: so who's doing the looking?

Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms

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‘I have put my best men on the job, sir.’ Who’s looking worried? ‘Sergeant Colon and Corporal Nobbs. Who’s looking relieved? ‘Very experienced men. The keystones of the Watch.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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‘But you see, your grace, you’re not here as an individual but as Ankh-Morpork. When people look at you, they see the city, mhm, mhm.’ ‘They do? Should I stop washing?’

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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Eventually he kicked the bristles and gave a long intake of breath, a sort of reverse whistle, which is the secret sign of craftsmen across the universe and means that something expensive is about to happen.

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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They were faraway cheeses with strange-sounding names, cheeses like Treble Wibbley, Waney Tasty, Old Argg, Red Runny, and the legendary Lancre Blue, which had to be nailed to the table to stop it attacking the other cheeses.

Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men

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A message was coming in.  On a pigeon.  But they’d tried everything else, hadn’t they? Swamp dragons tended to explode in the air, imps ate the messages and the semaphore helmets had not been a success, especially in high winds. And then Corporal Littlebottom had pointed out that Ankh-Morpork’s pigeons were, because of many centuries of depredation by the city’s gargoyle population, considerably more intelligent than most pigeons, although Vimes considered that this was not difficult because there were things growing on old damp bread that were more intelligent than most pigeons.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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‘He makes them rubber wallies, sah.’ ‘Ah. The preventatives.’ ‘Lot of people don’t agree with that sort of thing, sah.’ ‘So I understand.’ Colon drew himself up to attention again. ‘Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favour of unnatural things.’ Vetinari looked perplexed. ‘You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?’

Terry Pratchett, The Fifth Elephant

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‘You’re thinking something, sir. Aren’t you?’ ‘It is a use to which I occasionally put my brain, captain. Strange as it may seem.’

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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She didn't know what you called a lot of wizards. An order of wizards? A conspiracy? A circle? Whatever it was, it filled the University. Wizards strolled among the cloisters and sat on benches under the trees. Young wizards scuttled along pathways as bells rang, with their arms full of books or--in the case of senior students--with their books flapping through the air after them.

Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

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The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance.  It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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