Guards! Guards!
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- His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old. (Location 766)
- If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasnât as cynical as real life. (Location 3339)
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âNever build a dungeon you wouldnât be happy to spend the night in yourself,â said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. âThe world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.â (Location 3954)
- Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isnât in the job.â (Location 3958)
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The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. (Location 5016)