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“This is a city of beggars and thieves, Drumknott, is it not? I pride myself that we have some of the most skilled. In fact, if there were such a thing as an inter-city thieving contest, Ankh-Morpork would bring home the trophy and probably everyone’s wallets. Theft has a purpose, Drumknott, but one intrinsically feels that while there are things by nature unavailable to the common man, there are also things not to be allowed to the rich and powerful.”
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way, Drumknott. It’s good for the hygiene of the brain.”
“In short, Drumknott, a certain amount of harmless banditry amongst the lower classes is to be smiled upon if not actively encouraged, for the health of the city, 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?”
People come for the therapeutic baths at Ham-on-Rye, just down the road.
of course, as a nurse you inherit an amazingly large amount of amusing and embarrassing stories about things which people put . . .Perhaps this is not the time,
Sybil pointed out that the books were building Young Sam’s vocabulary, and not just about lavatorial matters, and it was indeed true that he was beginning, with encouragement, to read books in which nobody had a bowel movement at all. Which, when you came to think about it, was a mystery all by itself.
Goodness is about what you do. Not what you pray to.
Goblins may be wretched, unhygienic and badly fed, and in that they are pretty much like the commonality of most of mankind.
“Well, far be it from me to whiten a man’s name against his will,” said Vimes.
