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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.

Norton Juster's Popular Quotes

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for t…

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And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.

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...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

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Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you …

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So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

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What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

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I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going …

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Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

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