"But it'll kill him!"
"It could have been worse."
"What?"
"It could have been us."

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Lord Vetinari, as supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, could in theory summon the Archchancellor of Unseen University to his presence and, indeed, have him executed if he failed to obey.
On the other hand Mustrum Ridcully, as head of the college of wizards, had made it clear in polite but firm ways that he could turn him into a small amphibian and, indeed, start jumping around the room on a pogo stick.

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The shark didn't think much. Sharks don't. Their though processes can largely be represented by "=". You see it = you eat it.

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"Round everyone up. My study. Ten minutes," said Ridcully. He was a great believer in this approach. A less direct Archchancellor would have wandered around looking for everyone. His policy was to find one person and make their life difficult until everything happened the way he wanted it to. [Footnote: A policy adopted by almost all managers and several notable gods.]

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Ridcully assumed that anything people had time to write down couldn't be important.

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Rincewind:"We're not taking all five horses, are we?"
Cohen:"Sure. We might need 'em."
Rincewind:"But ... one for me, one for you ... what's the rest for?"
Cohen:"Lunch, dinner, and breakfast?"

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"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly."Mind you, my first name is Bad."

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The hideout echoed to the sounds of the Silver Horde getting up, groaning, adjusting various home-made surgical supports, complaining that they couldn't find their spectacles and mistakenly gumming one another's dentures.

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[The Silver Horde] stole from rich merchants and temples and kings. They didn't steal from poor people; this was not because there was anything virtuous about poor people, it was simply because poor people had no money.

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"Et a man once," mumbled Mad Hamish."In a siege, it were."
"You ate someone?" said Mr. Saveloy, beckoning to the waiter.
"Just a leg."
"That's terrible"
"Not with mustard."

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A wizard would sooner go without his robe and trousers than forgo his hat. Without his hat, people might think he was an ordinary person.

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"I'm not dependable. Even I don't depend on me, and I'm me."

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"How about Organdy Sloggo? Still going strong down in Howondaland, last I heard."
"Dead. Metal poisoning."
"How?"
"Three swords through the stomach."

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Fate:"How can you hope to win without sacrificing the occassional pawn?"
Lady:"Oh, I never play to win. But I do play not to lose."

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The Agatean word for "foreigner" is the same as the word for "ghost", and only one brush stroke away from the word for "victim".

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