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Discworld 30 - Monstrous Regiment

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  • Мария Калининаhas quoted8 years ago
    You take a bunch of people who don’t seem any different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem.”
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    “Oh, you can join as men if you want,” said Polly.
    The girls looked at one another.
    “You get better swearwords,” said Polly. “And the trousers are useful. But it’s your choice.”
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    The enemy wasn’t men, or women, or the old, or even the dead. It was just bleedin’ stupid people, who came in all varieties. And no one had the right to be stupid.
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    Her hair, now, was just long enough to be a nuisance without being long enough to be attractive
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    And Igorina, at least, had set up by herself in the capital, dealing with women’s problems, or at least those women’s problems that weren’t men.
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    “I…expected better of ’em, really. I thought they’d be better at it than men. Trouble was, they were better than men at being like men. Hah, they do say the army can make a man of you, eh? So…whatever it is you are going to do next, do it as you. Good or bad, do it as you. Too many lies and there’s no truth to go back to.”
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier that the siege weapon
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    Polly headed back to the rather larger cell that had been made available as the women’s barracks, or at least the barracks for the official women
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    If the landslide is big enough, even square pebbles will roll.
  • Анастасия Рожманhas quoted7 years ago
    And General Froc might give the orders, but it was permissible to suppose that it was Sergeant Major Jackrum who anticipated them.
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