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“Users of slippery slope arguments should take skiing lessons—you really can choose to stop.”

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“Thomas Wollaston, in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, complained that Darwin did no seem to know what a species actually was. The British Quarterly, deliberately sitting up trouble, speculated that a time might come when a monkey could propose marriage to a genteel British lady. Perhaps cruelest of all was a cartoon in Punch magazine, depicting a gorilla with a sign on its neck. Deliberately evoking the anti-slavery tract of Darwin's Wedgwood forbears, the sign read:"Am I a Man and a Brother?”

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“Thank you, for the kisses, in three years, Prime Minister Mark Rutte. It was lovely to be protected by such a guy.”

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“I was reading a story by Ariadne Albright called And Then There Were Buns. It was about a group of witch bakers who think they’re being taken to a remote island for a baking contest, but they actually get murdered one by one by their mysterious human host.”

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“The main reason I didn’t look into the future too much was because … well, I just didn’t want to. Life wasn’t very interesting when you knew what was going to happen.”

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“I could see her future already, and it involved me strangling her senseless. Horrible woman. I mean, not that I’d actually strangle her. I wasn’t being literal. I’m not a violent vampire. I’m sweet as a chocolate-chip cookie, me.”

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“Greg reached into his front pocket and grabbed a packet of peanuts (he liked to snack when he was thinking something over, or when he was relaxing, or when he was excited, or … well, you get the picture).”

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“They’re total players. Sexy as fuck, sure. But they’re supposed to be a nightmare in the sack.” “A nightmare? Like in a good or bad way?” Lollie’s look was so incredulous even her snakes seemed taken aback. “Is there a good kind of nightmare?”

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