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Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for.

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Beer, Nannies, Pay

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

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Children, Nice, Play
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.37, Random House

I imagine that fish have no word for water.

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Water, Imagine, Discworld
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.184, Random House

But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look. This is known as finance.

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Dream, Rainbow, Forever

It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.

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Book, Holy, Made
"Thud!". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2005.

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the other one, the little lesson that life sometimes rams home with a stick: you are not the only one watching the world. Other people are people; while you watch them they watch you, and they think about you while you think about them. The world isn’t just about you.

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Home, Eye, Thinking
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Monstrous Regiment: (Discworld Novel 31)”, p.142, Random House

They were also slightly less intelligent than he was. This is a quality you should always pray for in your would-be murderer.

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Intelligent, Quality, Would Be
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.175, Random House

He’sh mad?’ ‘Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money.’ ‘Ah, then he can’t be mad. I’ve been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he’sh just ecshentric.

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Men, Mad, Hash
Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.145, Random House

Tʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏ ᴊᴜsᴛɪᴄᴇ, ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴍᴇ. —Death

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For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.

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Differences, Gold, Example
"The Truth". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2000.

And what do you really do? asked Tiffany. The thin witch hesitatied for a moment, and then: We look to ... the edges, said Mistress Weatherwax. There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong ... an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

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Night, People, Life And Death

Money makes people rich; it is a fallacy to think it makes them better, or even that it makes them worse. People are what they do, and what they leave behind.

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Thinking, People, Rich
Terry Pratchett (2012). “Dodger”, p.202, Random House

If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.

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Littles, Had Enough, Crime
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.132, Random House

A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

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Horse, Skulls, Scary
"I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2010.

Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you.

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Book, Home, Thinking

What's the good of having mastery over cosmic balance and knowing the secrets of fate if you can't blow something up?

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Fate, Blow, Knowing
"Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out.

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Struggle, Fantasy, Discworld

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

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Alzheimer's, Disease And Death, Two
"'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.

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Hero, Thinking, People
Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Carpet People”, p.31, Random House

The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

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Writing, Ankh, Reign
Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.

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History, Battle, Sides
Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.54, Random House

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

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Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction

My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

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Baseball, Dream, Holiday

Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.

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People, Support, Sometimes
Terry Pratchett (2009). “Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)”, p.352, Random House

And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.

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Food, Cutting, Animal

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