Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8)
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They’re two teams, alike in villainy!
Noel
Is this a HINT? LOL.
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but at the end of the day they’re all crab buckets.’
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‘A whole box of chocolates is not depraved. Besides, you slid out the card between the layers, which confused me. I did not intend to eat the bottom layer. I did not want the bottom layer. It was practically assault.’
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‘Oh, that’s crabs for you,’ said Verity, disentangling the ones who had hitched a ride. ‘Thick as planks, the lot of them. That’s why you can keep them in a bucket without a lid. Any that tries to get out gets pulled back. Yes, as thick as planks.’
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If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.’
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She wishes to see you because, she says, she has a complaint. She is a maid.’ Lord Vetinari looked over the top of the paper. ‘Tell her I can’t help her with that. Perhaps, oh, I don’t know, a different perfume would help?’
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‘You don’t act drunk!’ ‘No, but I do act sober quite well, don’t you think?
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‘Nutt doesn’t need forgiveness!’ Glenda burst out. Nutt smiled and patted her hand. ‘Uberwald is a wild country for a man to travel in,’ he said, ‘even a holy man. Forgiveness is the name of Pastor Oats’s double-headed battle-axe. For Mister Oats the crusade against evil is not a metaphor. Forgiveness cut through my chains. I will gladly carry it.’