“Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He’d been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason, and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.”
Terry Pratchett, Jingo
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Finished reading: Feet Of Clay by Terry Pratchett ★★★★1/2 Another great City Watch book and another plot to remove Lord Vetinari but with Golems. I loved the developing friendship between Angua and Cheery/Cheri Littlebottom and the introduction of Dorfl the free-thinking Golem.
“‘Down there,’ he said, ‘are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.”
From Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett