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Terry Pratchett
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
“The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.”
“If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.”
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”
“I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.”
“but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?”
“… you were so worried about legal and illegal that you never stopped to think about whether it was right or wrong.”
“He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.”
“The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.”
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