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And for the first time for as long as she could remember, Tinnstra wasn't scared. Maybe there's something of my father in me after all.

A man who is already dead has no fear and can act without hesitation to vanquish even the most fearsome foe.

And bloody Vetinari got away with it again, because he was right: where there are little crimes, large crimes are not far behind.

The City Watch appeared to contain at least one member of every known bipedal sapient species plus one Nobby Nobbs.

You need to remember that you don't need loyalty in good times - opportunity does the task. Loyalty is tested and needed in bad times.

In fact, COVID magically solved the food delivery economics in the country overnight, just like it skyrocketed UPI penetration.

In fact, for the first time I realized that Gujarati was a great language to do business in, devoid of the aggression that many other languages seem to implicitly have. Even in the most heated discussions, the words or the tonality of the language did not add to the hostility.

Fun. What is it good for?

It's not pleasure, joy, delight, enjoyment, or glee. It's a hollow, cruel, vicious little bastard, a word for something sought with a hilarious couple of wobbly antennae on your head and the words I WANT IT! on your shirt, and it tends to leave you waking up with your face stuck to the street.

The smell of old cabbage, acne ointment, and nonmalignant skin disease became transmuted, in Corporal Nobbs, into a strange odor that lay across the nose like a saw blade on a harp.

Magic's a little bit alive, a little bit tricky. Just when you think you have got it by the throat, it bites you in the arse.

Dwarfs as a whole weren't happy about newspapers, regarding such news as a lover of fine grapes would regard raisins.

There were trolls in the Watch, plenty of dwarfs, one werewolf, three golems, an Igor, and, not least, Corporal Nobbs, so why not a vampire?

Death is only meaningless if it does not change us, Vis.

The qualities of a king change the kingdom. And not one of us is perfect enough to have a right to lead.

The decision may have been made by the few, Diago, but it's the Will of the many that killed your family.

Expectations can be a terrible thing.

Whether the obstacles to our advancement arise from our ties or our actions, we need to learn to overcome them ourselves. It's not fair, but nor is the world.

The power to protect is the highest of responsibilities, Diago. When a man is given it, his duty is not only to the people he thinks are worthy.

They say that young men know they will die, but only old men believe it.

Vimes shut his eyes in the hope that the world might become a better place. But when he opened them, it was still full of the pink face of only-just Sergeant Colon.

It started to rain again. Vimes liked the rain. Street crime went down when it rained. People stayed indoors.

"I've always wondered about his name," said Nobby, turning and waving. "I mean... Legitimate?"

"Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby," said Colon.

Brilliant men - even moderately intelligent men - in this city get showered with opportunities to succeed. Brilliant women have to fight for those opportunities, and, when we get them, we have to defend them tooth and nail, or they'll be snatched away.

There would be several subsequent instances of an Indian XI featuring five religions. The first time the Indian team represented only one religion was in the Edgbaston Test of 1979, almost half a century after their first Test match. This is in stark contrast with most other Test-playing nations, whose early XIs were dominated by one religion.

There is a Sunil Gavaskar Cricket Stadium in Zanzibar, Tanzania, and a Sunil Gavaskar Ground in Leicester, England. In fact, two oceans away, in a land where cricket still strives to seek acknowledgement, there is a Sunil Gavaskar Cricket Field in Louisville, Kentucky.

(Rajdeep) Sardesai's 7-match first class career, all of which was for Oxford University, was full of curiosities. He scored only 2 fifties but, to be fair, four of his eight dismissals were off Derek Underwood (who had also dismissed Dilip Sardesai in a Test Match), Eddie Hemmings, Allan Donald and Abdul Qadir. In his last innings he fell to, of all people, Michael Atherton. 😂

We have cats because they amuse us and because otherwise our clothes would lack the texture only cat hair can provide.

A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores.

'Nuggsy, please don't tell me you look at Mark Waugh while you're having sex...'
Silence ensued, a lascivious smirk slowly creeping across his face.
'You really are sick, aren't you, mate?'
'They don't seem to mind, mate,' he grinned.

One can see how Indian soldiering was of such importance in world history. The British empire, in particular, was heavily dependent on it. This is why one stream of India's freedom movement would focus over several decades on undermining the loyalty of these soldiers.