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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    I shall fear not. According to the Testament of Mezerek, the fisherman Nonpo spent four days in the belly of a giant fish," said Constable Visit.The thunder seemed particularly loud in the silence."Washpot, are we talking miracles here?" said Reg eventually. "Or just a very slow digestive process?
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Men marched away, Vimes. And men marched back. How glorious the battles would have been that they never had to fight!
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    They represented what people called the "international community." And like all uses of the word "community," you were never quite sure what or who it was.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Sometimes I dream that we could deal with the big crimes, that we could make a law for countries and not just for people,
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  5. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    I'm not a natural
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  6. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Someone broke from the scrum and, punching and kicking, staggered towards the Klatchian goal."Isn't that man your butler?" said Ahmed."Yes.""One of your soldiers said he bit a man's nose off."Vimes shrugged. "He's got a very pointed look if I don't use the sugar tongs, I know that.
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  7. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    The Librarian shyly held out a small, battered green book. Vimes had been expecting something bigger, but he took it anyway. It paid to look at any book the orangutan gave you. He matched you up to books. Vimes supposed it was a knack, in the same way that an undertaker was very good at judging heights.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Are we entirely ready, sir?" said Lieutenant Hornett, with the special inflection that means "We are not entirely ready, sir.""We had better be. Glory awaits, gentlemen. In the words of General Tacticus, 'let us take history by the scrotum.' Of course, he was not a very honourable fighter.
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  10. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    It was because he wanted there to be conspirators. It was much better to imagine men in some smoky room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over the brandy. You had to cling to this sort of image, because if you didn't then you might have to face the fact that bad things happened because ordinary people, the kind who brushed the dog and told their children bedtime stories, were capable of then going out and doing horrible things to other ordinary people. It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, then what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things."
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  11. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.
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  12. Terry Pratchett _ Jingo

    We need to borrow your boat," said Vimes."Bugger off!""I'm choosing to believe that was a salty nautical expression meaning 'Why, certainly,'" said Vimes.
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