You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we wer…

Terry Pratchett
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You have the effrontery to be squeamish, it thought at him. But we were dragons. We were supposed to be cruel, cunning, heartless and terrible. But this much I can tell you, you ape – the great face pressed even closer, so that Wonse was staring into the pitiless depths of his eyes – we never burned and tortured and ripped one another apart and called it morality. ✨ Guards! Guards!. Book by Terry Pratchett, 1989.
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