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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
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”
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“Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.”
― The Girl in the Golden Atom
― The Girl in the Golden Atom
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
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