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Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide.

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it.

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

What's a philosopher?' said Brutha.Someone who's bright enough to find a job with no heavy lifting,' said a voice in his head.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?