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Using a metaphor in front of a man as unimaginative as Ridcully was like ared flag to a bu... was like putting something very annoying in front ofsome...more

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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a dexterity of jaw that was t...more

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She was not an unkind woman, despite a lifetime of being gently dried out on the stove of education, but she was conscientious and a stickler for prop...more

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She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.

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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') there are lies-to-bosses ('as ...more

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Progress just means bad things happen faster.