... what you were made as wasn't what you had to be or what you might become ... (FE)
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The chaffing qualities of frozen underwear can be seriously underestimated. (FE)
He pushed his luck. It was clearly too weak to move by itself. (FE)
Vimes was hazy on rural issues, but weren't there supposed to be charcoal burners, woodcutters and ... he tried to think ... little girls taking goodies to granny? The stories Vimes had learned as a kid suggested that all forests were full of bustle, activity and the occasional scream. (FE)
The news that they have nothing to fear is guaranteed to strike terror into the hearts of innocents everywhere. (FE)
'Money doesn't need to talk, it merely has to listen.' (FE)
And the ones that survived went on to survive again, because surviving is a matter of practice. (FE)
'Dwarfs are very argumentative, sir. Of course, many wouldn't agree.' (FE)
The really odd thing about human sex, though, was the way it went on even when people were fully clothed and sitting on opposite sides of the fire. (FE)
'I've got very odd thumbs when it comes to pricking.' (FE)
... if things went all pear-shaped in a hurry, one small dog had all the survival chances of a chocolate kettle on a very hot stove. (FE)
A penny could drop through wet cement faster than it could drop for Fred Colon. (FE)
Carrot was very keen on modernizing the watch, and in some strange way sending a message via the tube was so much more modern than simply opening the door and shouting, which is what Mr Vimes did. (FE)
'Was there a third party?'
'I dunno. I never get invited to dem fings.' (FE) .... kingship was a bit like a grand piano - you could put a cover over it, but you could still see what shape it was underneath. (FE)
It often seemed to him that Leonard, who had pushed intellect into hitherto undiscovered uplands, had discovered there large and specialised pockets of stupidity. (FE)
'... the midden has hit the windmill...' (FE)
He knew he had hidden depths. There was nothing in them that he'd like to see float to the surface. (FE)
You did something because it had always been done, and the explanation was 'But we've always done it this way.' A million dead people can't have been wrong, can they? (FE)
'I don't know a lot about diplomacy, but I do know it's never just about one thing.' (FE)
'... you know what people call men who wear wigs and gowns, don't you?'
'Yes, miss.' 'You do?' 'Yes, miss. Lawyers, miss.' (FE) The young woman stood on a corner in the Shades. Her general stance indicated that she was, in the specialised patois of the area, a lady-in-waiting. To be more precise, a lady-in-waiting for Mr Right, or at least Mr Right Amount. (FE)
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