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Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes: We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
         

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.


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We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
         



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