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„Here, have a punctuation mark." And she held out a box of sugar-coated question marks, periods, commas, and exclamation points. „That’s all I get to eat now.”

Tough life! Just exclamation marks to eat!

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„It's against the law to bark without using the barking meter. Are you ready to be sentenced?… would you like a long or a short sentence? A short one, if you please," said Milo… How about "I am'? That's the shortest sentence I know."… There will also be a small additional penalty of six million years in prison. Case closed," he pronounced, rapping his gavel again. "Come with me. I'lI take you to the dungeon."

"I knew you'd like it, laughed the letter man, popping two G's and an R into his mouth and letting the juice drip down his chin. "A's are one of our most popular letters. All of them aren't that good," he confided in a low voice. "Take the Z, for instance very dry and sawdusty.”

Give me A the letterman!

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"I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be! And with that he released a dozen balloons that sailed off into the sky.”

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“There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself — not just sometimes, but always.”

Oh boy