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The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer
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“The Duke of Definition.” “The Minister of Meaning.”
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“The Earl of Essence.” “The Count of Connotation.” “The Undersecretary of Understanding.”
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“Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards.”
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kingdom of Wisdom must grow.’
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One went south to the Foothills of Confusion and built Dictionopolis,
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north to the Mountains of Ignorance and built Digitopolis,
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they became the Princess of Sweet Rhyme and the Princess of Pure Reason
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Azaz the Unabridged, king of Dictionopolis, and the other went north and became the Mathemagician, ruler of Digitopolis; and, true to their words, they both provided well for the little girls, who continued to live in Wisdom.
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Castle in the Air,
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The duke here can make mountains out of molehills. The minister splits hairs. The count makes hay while the sun shines. The earl leaves no stone unturned. And the undersecretary,” he finished ominously, “hangs by a thread. Can’t you do anything at all?”
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didn’t know that I was going to have to eat my words,”
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Mountains of Ignorance,
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Castle in the Air.”
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Point of View. For instance, from here that looks like a bucket of water,” he said, pointing to a bucket of water; “but from an ant’s point of view it’s a vast ocean, from an elephant’s just a cool drink, and to a fish, of course, it’s home.
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So, you see, the way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
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If there’s one thing we need more of around here, it’s less noise.
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Island of Conclusions.
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every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not.
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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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“I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and
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monster of habit.”
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“If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you’ll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won’t have the time. For there’s always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren’t for that dreadful magic staff, you’d never know how much time you were wasting.”
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monster of habit,
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demon of insincerity,”
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Castle in the Air.
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Senses Taker,
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you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”
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“but it’s not just learning things that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.”
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Triple Demons of Compromise—
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since they always settled their differences by doing what none of them really wanted, they rarely got anywhere at all—and neither did anyone they met.
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Horrible Hopping Hindsight,
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Gorgons of Hate and Malice,
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Overbearing Know-it-all, talking continuously. A dismal demon who was mostly mouth, he was ready at a moment’s notice to offer misinformation on any subject.
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Gross Exaggeration,
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mangle the truth.
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Threadbare Excuse,
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you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.”
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so many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.”
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