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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Funny Inspirational Witty
One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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Fantasies Head Realistically Since
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Argue Shaves Six Years
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Detours Failure Resources Wells
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Boys Kids Resources Scary Supposed
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Accomplish Funny Life Motivational Nothing
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed

I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.

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