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...
Changes are so frightening.
Why is it,' he said quietly, 'that quite often even the things which are correct just don't seem to be right?
Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live in a pla...
Why don't they live in Illusions?' suggested the Humbug. 'It's much prettier.' 'Many of them do,' he answered, walking in the direction of the forest once again, 'but it's just as bad to live a place...
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you? asked Milo.Much worse, he said longingly. But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
Is everyone with one face called a Milo?Oh no, Milo replied; some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.How terribly confusing, he cried. Everything here is called exact...
It has been a long trip, said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.You must n...
It has been a long trip, said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn’t made so many mistakes. I’m afraid it’s all my fault. You must...
You wouldn’t like it much anyway, someone replied gently. Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
It's completely logical, explained the Dodecahedron. The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have. Simple arithmetic, that's all. Suppose you had something and added so...
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
Kad god se nasmiješiš, radost se oko tebe širi poput kolobara u bari, i kad god si tužan, nitko nigdje ne može biti stvarno sretan. A isto ti je tako i sa znanjem, jer kad god naučiš nešto novo, čitav...
When he had repeated them often enough, they became a decision.
Milo nibbled carefully at the letter and discovered that it was quite sweet and delicious — just the way you’d expect an A to taste.I knew you’d like it, laughed the letter man, popping two G’s and an...
My goodness', thought Milo. 'Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
There’s lots to do; we have a very busy schedule—— At 8 o’clock we get up, and then we spend From 8 to 9 daydreaming. From 9 to 9:30 we take our early midmorning nap. From 9:30 to 10:30 we dawdle and...
Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insiste...
Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
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