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One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation__ettuce farming, say__ould offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?__oldeneyes Dactylos shrugged.____ good at it,_ he said.
Terry Pratchett The Color of Magic
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One cannot help feeling that some alternative occupation__ettuce farming, say__ould offer somewhat less of a risk of being put to death by installments. Why do you persist in it?__oldeneyes Dactylos shrugged.____ good at it,_ he said.

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