# Guards! Guards!

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Terry Pratchett]]
- Full Title: Guards! Guards!
- Category: #books

## Highlights
- His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old. ([Location 766](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000UVBT7M&location=766))
- If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn’t as cynical as real life. ([Location 3339](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000UVBT7M&location=3339))
- “Never build a dungeon you wouldn’t be happy to spend the night in yourself,” said the Patrician, laying out the food on the cloth. “The world would be a happier place if more people remembered that.” ([Location 3954](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000UVBT7M&location=3954))
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- Never trust any ruler who puts his faith in tunnels and bunkers and escape routes. The chances are that his heart isn’t in the job.” ([Location 3958](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000UVBT7M&location=3958))
- The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. ([Location 5016](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000UVBT7M&location=5016))
    - Tags: [[learning]] [[knowledge]] [[favorite]]