Selections from The Phantom Tollbooth

He climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--"

"Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying."

And, sure enough, as soon as they were all quite still, it began to move quickly through the streets.

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Then your head keeps changing its height and you always see things in a different way? Why, when you're fifteen things won't look at all the way they did when you were ten, and at twenty everything will change again.

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The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.

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Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

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The only thing you can do easily is be wrong.

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Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.

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"But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context."

"Don't you think you should be getting back?" suggested the bug, holding one arm up in front of him.

"What a horrible thought." The [Everpresent Wordsnatcher] shuddered. "It's such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all of my time out of it."