“I felt the pain and the glory of growth, was straining and shuddering with it.”

“Rincewind picked up a spare paper and read it.It was headed: Examination for the post of Assistant Night-Soil Operative for the District of W'ung.He read question one. It required candidates to wri...”

“Knowledge is a beautiful thing that can fill us with happiness. Lets just think about our students who answered brilliantly to questions on various exams.”

“When you do exams you never want to be the one who finishes first and you never want to be the one who finishes last.”

“If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, youll keep resentment far away.”

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations”

“One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.”