Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwor…

Terry Pratchett
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Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2009). Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21), p.175, Random House
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