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Quotes from the "Discworld" novels

fortune-discworld is a collection of quotes from the “Discworld” novels by Terry Pratchett

To install these fortunes, copy the .dat file to your fortunes directory (possibly /usr/games/lib/fortunes). To use it, simply type: fortune discworld

Download: fortune-discworld.tgz

Guillaume Rousse maintains a Mandrake package of this fortune collection at the Penguin Liberation Front.

Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the
machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisement said,
3) electrocuted the immediate neighbourhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely
to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly,
absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the
manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be
allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to
treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would
result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very
thin watches.
-- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)