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+ Mordekainen's Magical Compendum of Deep Thought.
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+
+If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the
+courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
+
+It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
+
+The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had
+any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and
+filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other
+children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost
+broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was
+too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him
+down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of
+these people.
+
+Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is
+why several of us died of tuberculosis.
+
+Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word
+itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words -
+"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and
+that's why so is mankind.
+
+Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can
+bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little
+tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be
+like ambition.
+
+I'd rather be rich than stupid.
+
+We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at
+them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.
+
+Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of
+striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
+
+As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray,
+I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he
+was, and how I named him Flint.
+
+When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school
+we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat
+one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman
+was a bear.
+
+Why do there have to be rules for everything? It's gotten to the point
+that rules dominate just about every aspect of our lives. In fact, it
+might be said that rules have become the foot-long sticks of mankind.
+
+If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's
+got to be a better way.
+
+If I had a nickname, I think I would want it to be "Prince of
+Weasels", because then I could go up and bite people and they would
+turn around and go, "What the-?" And then they would recognize me, and
+go, "Oh, it's you, the Prince of Weasels."
+
+It's amazing to me that one of the world's most feared diseases would
+be carried by one of the world's smallest animals: the real tiny
+dog.
+
+Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see
+that I forgot to put on my pants.
+
+I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.
+
+It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible
+world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the
+Invisible Scary Skeletons.
+
+Whenever I hear the sparrow chirping, watch the woodpecker chirp,
+catch a chirping trout, or listen to the sad howl of the chirp rat, I
+think: Oh boy! I'm going insane again.
+
+He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess
+that's what I hated about him.
+
+The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very
+large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of
+meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just
+say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside
+the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?
+