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You know I've never agreed with baths. Sittin' around in your own dirt like that.
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Terry Pratchett
Age: 66 †
Born: 1948
Born: April 28
Died: 2015
Died: March 12
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Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.
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Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.
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Oh, come on. Revelation was a mushroom dream that belonged in the Apocrypha. The New Testament is basically about what happened when God got religion.
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I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library I dream of dangerous places.
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