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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

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Norton Juster
Age: 91 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 2
Died: 2021
Died: March 8
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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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