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Norton Juster Quotes: To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
         

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.


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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.



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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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You must never feel badly about making mistakes.



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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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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.



Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.



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But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.



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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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