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A good book written for children can be read by adults

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
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Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.
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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
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What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
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AHA! interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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