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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
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“When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
― Fox in Socks
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle
bottle paddle battle.”
― Fox in Socks
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
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“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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