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| It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful. | Matilda | Roald Dahl | 68%
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| The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | 58%
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| O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a’ the seas gang dry. | “A Red, Red Rose” | Robert Burns | 47%
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| Shuffle, duffle, muzzle, muff. Vista, wista, mista-cuff. We are men of groans and howls, Mystic men who eat boiled owls. Tell us what you wish, oh King. Our magic can do anything. | Bartholomew and the Oobleck | Dr. Seuss | 42%
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| The hands of the clock were reaching high In an old midtown hotel; I name no name, but its sordid fame Is table talk in hell. I name no name, but hell's own flame Illumes the lobby garish, A gilded snare just off Times Square For the maidens of the parish. | “A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor” | Ogden Nash | 42%
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| Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems. | Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid | Lemony Snicket | 37%
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| In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers. | A Princess of Mars | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 32%
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| Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. | Small Gods (Discworld, vol.13) | Terry Pratchett | 26%
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| After being abducted by aliens and left incoherent in the woods across the street, the government would quietly whisk me away into a secret hospital where machine parts would be grafted, little by little, onto my nonfunctioning body parts. Now bionic, I would hear the quietest of sounds. Gone ultrasonic, I would jot down hushed conversations and stave off the threat of war from other nations. | “The Six Million Dollar Deaf Boy” | Raymond Luczak | 16%
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| Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone. | Henry VI, Part One | William Shakespeare | 11%
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