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> [“There is an old German fable about porcupines who need to huddle together for warmth, but are in danger of hurting each other with their spines. When they find the optimum distance to share each other's warmth without putting each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lynne-truss/there-is-an-old-german-fable-about-porcupines-who-need-to-huddle/)

[Lynne Truss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lynne-truss/)

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> [“There were three of them there, then, and Amabella was introducing Bod and he was shaking hands and saying, "Charmed, I'm sure," because he could greet people politely over nine hundred years of changing manners.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-gaiman/there-were-three-of-them-there-then-and-amabella-was-introducing-bod/)

[Neil Gaiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-gaiman/)

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