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To A Child, And To An Adult, Too, What You Discover By Yourself, Or What You Think You Discover By Yourself, Is What Stays.

Why, Did You Know That If A Beaver Two Feet Long With A Tail A Foot And A Half Long Can Build A Dam Twelve Feet High And Six Feet Wide In Two Days, All You Would Need To Build Boulder Dam Is A Beaver Sixty-eight Feet Long With A Fifty-one-foot Tail?" "where Would You Find A Beaver That Big?" Grumbled The Humbug As His Pencil Point Snapped. "i'm Sure I Don't Know," He Replied, "but If You Did, You'd Certainly Know What To Do With Him.

They Walked For A While, All Silent In Their Thoughts, Until They Reached The Car And Alec Drew A Fine Telescope From His Shirt And Handed It To Milo. "carry This With You On Your Journey," He Said Softly, "for There Is Much Worth Noticing That Often Escapes The Eye. Through It You Can See Everything From The Tender Moss In A Sidewalk Crack To The Glow Of The Farthest Star — And, Most Important Of All, You Can See Things As They Really Are, Not Just As They Seem To Be. It's My Gift To You.

Have You Ever Heard A Blindfolded Octopus Unwrap A Cellophane-covered Bathtub?

Things Which Are Equally Bad Are Also Equally Good. Try To Look At The Bright Side Of Things. - Humbug