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“The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice!”
― The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
― The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it.
The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.”
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The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.”
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“Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Our favourite item was the balcony that overlooked the sea because it had an awning that you lowered by pressing an electric switch. The switch had two settings. You could either turn it to AUTO, in which case the awning lowered itself whenever the sun came out, or you could set it to MANUEL [sic], in which case, we assumed, a small, incompetent Spanish waiter came and did it for you.”
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