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• If you want to build a car, you don't slap a bunch of iron ore, some sand, a rubber tree, and a couple of cows together and call it good

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  Couple, Iron, Car

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• Always be polite to a dragon. It's harder than it sounds. Dragon etiquette is incredibly complicated, and if you make a mistake, the dragon eats you.

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  Mistake, Dragons, Sound

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “Calling on Dragons”, p.251, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sometimes I couldn't help thinking that the unluckiest thing about being the thirteenth child was having all those older brothers and sisters telling me what to do.

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  Brother, Children, Thinking

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.26, Scholastic Inc.

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• It took us most of the morning to put together the letter she sent to the Frontier Management Department, and I learned a lot about how to be frigidly polite and still leave somebody feeling like they'd been spanked.

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  Morning, Feelings, Together

  Patricia C. Wrede (2012). “The Far West”, p.24, Scholastic Inc.

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• News of Daniel's disappearance does not alarm me as it might have done a week ago. Given recent events, very little alarms me as it might have done a week ago. I feel as if my supply of alarm has been exhausted, at least temporarily.

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  Alarms, Events, Doe

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “The Mislaid Magician: Or, Ten Years After”, p.122, Open Road Media

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• Well,” said the frog, “what are you going to do about it?” “Marrying Therandil? I don’t know. I’ve tried talking to my parents, but they won’t listen, and neither will Therandil.” “I didn’t ask what you’d said about it,” the frog snapped. “I asked what you’re going to do. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.

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  Talking, Parent, Frogs

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

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  Hero, World, Combination

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.

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  Looks, Matter, Way

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• Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

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  Past, Littles, Kim

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.69, Macmillan

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• You mean I'm going to have to do a spell in front of a bunch of toffs?" Kim said, outraged that no one had mentioned this before she had agreed to this come-out. "Yes, exactly", Lady Wendall said serenely. "You and Richard have plenty of time to design something that will reflect your unique background, as well as demonstrating your abilities as a wizard. I am looking forward to seeing what you decide upon." "I could pick everyone's pockets at once with magic, "Kim said, still disgruntled. "That'd 'reflect my unique background', all right".

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  Mean, Unique, Decide Upon

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.305, Macmillan

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• He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

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  Glasses, Waiting, Looks

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “Thirteenth Child”, p.344, Scholastic Inc.

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• Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

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  Eye, Silver, Stealing

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• You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

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  Force, Folks, Good Sense

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.121, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.

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  Sometimes, Ifs

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• Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

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  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Mean

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.296, Scholastic Inc.

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• I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon

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  Lying, Deny, Courses

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• You mean he thinks I'm going to get MORE offers?" Kim said, appalled. "He doesn't seem to be the only one that thinks so." Mairelon said. "Aunt Agatha mentioned it to me yesterday afternoon. Is there anyone, or would you rather I turn the lot of them away?" Kim shook her head. "There isn't anyone." Except you.

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  Mean, Aunt, Thinking

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• You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

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  Doors, Kitchen, Library

  Patricia C. Wrede (2015). “The Enchanted Forest Chronicles: [Boxed Set]”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is nothing that is quite so reassuring in an awkward situation as knowing that one is well turned-out, and while I hope I am not so fainthearted as to require such stratagems, I am not so foolish as to overlook their value.

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  Knowing, Awkward, Reassuring

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• Well?' Jasper said when Mairelon did not reply. 'Who are you?' 'No, no,' Mairelon said. 'I asked you first. I also, if you recall, asked how you found this place and what you intend to do here, and you haven't told me that, either.' 'We might ask you the same thing,' Jasper retorted. 'You might, but I don't recommend it,' Mairelon said. 'You'll get a reputation as a poor conversationalist if you all can do is repeat what other people say to you.

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  People, Might, Firsts

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.135, Macmillan

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• Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their most likely readers…at least, not on their first read-through at age eight or ten or fifteen.

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  Children, Book, Eight

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• Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!

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  Wells

  Patricia C. Wrede (2010). “A Matter of Magic: Mairelon and The Magician's Ward”, p.443, Macmillan

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