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41 " As the message drained away Vimes stared at the opposite wall, in which the door now opened, after a cursory knock, to reveal the steward bearing that which is guaranteed to frighten away all nightmares, to wit, a cup of hot tea.** The sound of the gentle rattle of china cup on china saucer drives away all demons, a little-known fact. "
― Terry Pratchett , Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch #8)
42 " His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway. "
43 " It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was, "
44 " Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed? "
45 " ...smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances. "
46 " It always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers. "
47 " There were times when the world did not need policemen, because what it really did need was for somebody who knew what they were doing to shut it all down and start it all up again so that this time it could be done properly. "
48 " Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died. "
49 " Where there are policemen there’s crime, sergeant, remember that. "
50 " You beat a dozen armed men single-handed?" "Oh aye, sir," said Wee Mad Arthur slyly, "but it was nae fair, I had them outnumbered. "
51 " Anger helped Vimes up the last leg of the climb. Anger at himself and whoever it was who had punctured his holiday. But it was worrying: he had wanted something to happen and now it had. Somebody was dead. Sometimes you had to take a look at yourself and then look away. "
52 " You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself. "
53 " Being a buisance is not something you should die of. "
54 " Whoever said that a soft answer turneth away wroth had never worked in a bar. "
55 " ... the bestselling novel taking the Ankh-Morpork literary world by storm was dedicated to Commander Samuel Vimes. The title of the book was Pride and Extreme Prejudice. "
56 " The trouble with a target-rich environment is that it's useless if you don't know which target you have to aim at. "
57 " Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, "I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then it won't bother me. "
58 " Life is addictive. If people complain overmuch, I think I will have to draw that fact to their attention. "