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I see what you mean about making a will, actually, although I still maintain that forty quid spent on deciding what's going to happen after you're dead is a waste of good beer money.

— Tom Holt Flying Dutch (1991)

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The more he asserted it, the less they believed him, which is human nature for you.

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Like fish, accountants see things in a different way from people, and details which people find unimportant are their reason for existing.

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There is no word for artist in the Mysian language; instead there’s a long-winded periphrasis that translates as man-who-deceives-others-into-giving-food-by-spoiling-bits-of-wood.

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Take anything to its logical conclusion and you’re likely to end up with the grotesque and the absurd.

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