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Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. Th...more

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A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

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WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

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Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.

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Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when t...more

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... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

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To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes...more

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It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone's mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop th...more