... a cartwheel rolled out of the smoke and away down the road. This always happens. (NW)
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'... I'm useless. I was educated to be useless. What we've always been supposed to do is hang around until there's a war and do something really stupidly brave and then get killed. What we've mainly done is hang on to things. Ideas mostly.' (TT)
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)
He’d wanted changes. It was just that he’d wanted things to stay the same, as well. (P)
“People never learn anything in this place,” she’d said. “They only remember things.” (P)
No-one knows why smoking boots always remain, no matter how big the explosion. It seems to be just one of those things. (S)
'In any case the rules don't concern us at this point. We have to play the game in any eventuality and so we will abide by them in the best traditions of sportsmanship until we have worked out where they may be most usefully broken to our advantage'. (UA)
… if there were two things the city liked, it was tradition and goddesses, especially if the goddesses were a bit short on chiffon above the waist. (UA)
The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up. (UA)
... you only thought the world would be better if it was run by women if you didn’t actually know many women. Or old women, at least. Take the whole thing about the dimity scarves. Women had to cover their hair on Fridays, but there was nothing about this in the Book, which was pretty dar-pretty damn rigorous about most things. It was just a custom. It was done because it was always done. And if you forgot, or didn’t want to, the old women got you. They had eyes like hawks. They could practically see through walls. And the men took notice, because no man wanted to cross the crones in case they started watching him, so half-hearted punishment would be dealt out. Whenever there was an execution, and especially when there was a whipping, you always found the grannies in the front row, sucking peppermints. (MR)
Nanny Ogg sent a number of cards home to her family, not a single one of which got back before she did. This is traditional, and happens everywhere in the universe. (WA)
Originally the hole had stayed there because no one could be bothered to have it fixed, but now it stayed there because it was Traditional. (DW)
'You’ve got to have trolls under bridges. Otherwise, what’s it all about?' (TB)
The gates of the Assassins’ Guild were never shut. This was said to be because Death was open for business all the time, but it was really because the hinges had rusted centuries before and no-one had got
around to doing anything about it. (P) Lancre people considered that anything religious that wasn’t said in some ancient and incomprehensible speech probably wasn’t the genuine article. (CJ)
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