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“Witches were a bit like cats. They didn’t much like one another’s company but t…”

“There’s no a lot of laughs in an underworld. This one used to be called Limbo, …”

“Character assassination. What a wonderful idea. Ordinary assassination only wor…”

“It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that …”