The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his.

I read the best works of some of the best satirists, and indeed best writers from the beginning of the Victorian era to about the 1960s. If you want to be a blacksmith, you go and watch the blacksmith working, and you work out what the blacksmith does.

You do know you could find yourself charged with being a dominant species while under the influence of impulse-driven consumerism, don't you?

Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.

There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

A Duke couldn't have the arse hanging out of his trousers when meeting foreign diplomats. Actually even plain old Sam Vimes never had the arse hanging out of his trousers, either, but no one would have actually started a war if he had.

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.