Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness…

Terry Pratchett
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Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness. ✨ Terry Pratchett (2008). Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15), p.291, Random House
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