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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Bill Watterson

I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
BILL WATTERSON

Common Ignore Plenty Sense
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dessert Food Funny Vegetarian
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Failure Headed Resources Success Truth
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Demand Kind Sacrifice
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
BILL WATTERSON

Idea Packing Percent Prostituted

You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

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