Dr. Seuss Quotes

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You oughta be thankful, a whole heaping lot,
For the places and people you're lucky you're not!

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Don't give up! I believe in you all.
A person's a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

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I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse, i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am

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The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.

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Say!
I like green eggs and ham!
I do! I like them, Sam-I-Am!

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You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place...

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And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too.OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO!

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With your head full of brains,
and your shoes full of feet,
You're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street.

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When at last we are sure
You've been properly pilled,
Then a few paper forms
Must be properly filled
So that you and your heirs
May be properly billed.

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"Maybe Christmas", he thought, "doesn't come from a store."
"Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"

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Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

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Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

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You'll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You'll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

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You make 'em, I amuse 'em. This was in a Canadian article written about him

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And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he,
Is King of the Mud. That is all he can see.
And the turtles, of course... all the turtles are free
As turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

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Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

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Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke - my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

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You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

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You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

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I meant what I said,
and I said what I meant
An elephant's faithful,
One hundred percent.

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When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

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In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!

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I would not like them here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

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If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

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Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

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You will come to a place where the streets are not marked. Some windows are lighted. but mostly they're darked. But mostly they're darked. A place you could sprain both your elbow and chin! Do you dare to stay out? Do you dare to go in? How much can you lose? How much can you win?

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