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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made from these words. With them, there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is use them well and in the right places.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
Milo nibbled carefully at the letter and discovered that it was quite sweet and delicious - just the way you'd expect an A to taste."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. And the X? Why, it tastes like a trunkful of stale air. That's why people hardly ever use them. But most of the others are quite tasty. Try some more."He gave Milo an I, which was icy and refreshing, and Tock a crisp, crunchy C.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
That was all many years ago," she continued; "but they never appointed a new Which, and that explains why today people use as many words as they can and think themselves very wise for doing so. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
{I}t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
{I}t's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what you do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
{I}t's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
{T}he most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
And you are almost never right about anything,' he said, pointing at the Humbug. 'and, when you are, it's usually an accident.
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Norton Juster _ The Phantom Tollbooth
There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself-not just sometimes, but always. When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd bothered. Nothing really interested him-least of all the things that should have.
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Norton Juster _ Alberic the Wise
When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.
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Norton Juster _ Alberic the Wise
Well, almost nothing, or depending on your generosity of spirit, hardly anything, for he could hitch an ox and plough a furrow straight or thatch a roof or hone his scythe until the edge was bright and sharp or tell by a sniff of the breeze what the day would bring or with a glance when a grape was sweet and ready.
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Norton Juster _ Alberic the Wise
For two days and nights and half another day again he walked – through lonely forests and down along the rushing mountain streams that seemed to know their destination far better than he knew his.
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