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ChipmunkErnie
Terry Pratchett on expected limitations in UNSEEN ACADEMICALS
"A lot hinges on the fact that, in most circumstances, people are not allowed to hit you with a mallet. They put up all kinds of visible and invisible sign that say 'Do...
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ChipmunkErnie
Pratchett's comment on Peace from UNSEEN ACADEMICALS:
"The word 'peace' is generally defined as a period of rest and rearmament before the next war."
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Written on November 17th, 2009
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honey624
Living here in China is wonderful. Then teaching oral English here is just as wonderful. My students all love learning quotes and have many along with idioms. My students think tyey are grat and then turn around to gtive me a quote from...
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Written on April 13th, 2011
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ChipmunkErnie
Pratchett on war from UNSEEN ACADEMICALS:
"Why is there a certain cast of the military mind which leads sensible people to do again, with gusto, what didn't work before?"
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Written on November 17th, 2009
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GoogleyEye
from Mr Mulliner Speaking
(Arrow, London : 2008. First published in 1933 by Herbert Jenkins Ltd) p.74
To the more meditative type of cat there comes at irregular intervals a strange, dreamy urge to stand on its hind legs and sharpen...
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Written on March 1st, 2011
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GoogleyEye
Something Fresh
(First published in the UK in 1915 by Methuen; First published as 'Something New' in the USA, 1915, by D. appleton)
p. 46-8
Five years before, a nervous breakdown had sent Mr Peters to a New York specialist.
The...
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Written on March 1st, 2011
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GoogleyEye
Chaucer's not a favorite author of mine, but there is this one quote I love (from The Book of the Duchess, circa 1370 AD), because it amazingly transcends the language gap. Once you know that it's about a puppy, you hardly need to know...
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Written on March 1st, 2011
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