Equal Rites (Discworld, #3; Witches, #1)

by Terry Pratchett

“You’re a bit young for this,” she said, “but as you grow older you’ll find most people don’t set foot outside their own heads much.

A person ignorant of the possibility of failure can be a halfbrick in the path of the bicycle of history.

one must speculate in order to accumulate.

they also paid in respect, and that was a rock-hard currency.