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  1. Gregory Maguire _ What-the-Dickens: The Story of

    You lie, cheat and steal and call it courtesy, cunning and thrift.
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  2. Gregory Maguire _ What-the-Dickens: The Story of

    Even a clock has teeth and time has a bite all of its own.
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    So young, he knew nothing about aerodynamics, except how the heart could lift and lift.
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    He was hungry without yet knowing that hunger could be slaked by food; he was lonely without yet knowing that loneliness could be slaked, too.
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    Oh, the accident necessary to fiction!
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    Very few things in the world are certain, but morning is one of them.
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    He had no other plans for the rest of his life. He followed her.
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    Skibbereen have a hard time at {math}; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.
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    Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves. All the literature is consistent on this point. Children begin to think they've imagined us.
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    Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns shaped into knitting needles. A wodge of curlicued metallic scrubbing pad supplied the threat. 'I knit handcuffs as a hobby,' explained Old Flossie happily, and set to work. 'Idle hands get up to no good, so I like to be prepared in case I meet up with any idle hands.
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  11. Gregory Maguire _ What-the-Dickens: The Story of

    Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.
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  12. Gregory Maguire _ What-the-Dickens: The Story of

    So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
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