Iivo, preparing for the costume party: "I'm coming as a big stinker!"

Elanore: "But, Diiest, you don't need to get dressed up for that!"

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"I don't take orders from little people."

(Olivia, to Elanore, who had requested that she play a particular favorite on the piano.)

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Elanore: "Philip smells like earwax."
(as he read her a bedtime story)

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Olivia, to Elanore: "Lips? Lips?! Who doesn't know how to spell 'lips'?"

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