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* [covering Sir Ector with magical indoor snow] That is what I call a "wizard blizzard".
* Oh, no, no, no, no. Never touch the stuff.
* I have come to educate the Wart.
* [disembodied voice] I'm gone, but then, I'm not gone. Heh-heh-heh. So if I do leave, you can never be sure that I am gone, can you?
* [appearing suddenly] Thank you. You're very kind. Very generous, I must say.
* Oh, big news, eh? Can't wait for the London Times - first edition won't be out for at least [looks at his watch] 1200 years. Archimedes, would you mind sailing down there and-
* Oh, come now! You're as wet as you can get!
* Archimedes! I'll turn you into a human!
* I will! So help me, I will!
* Works every time. Just like magic!
* Archimedes, where... where-where are we?
* Uh, c-castle? Castle?
* Uh... The boy?
* [to Archimedes] Now, now, just a moment. I-I...
* [realizing it's not from Archimedes] Oh.
* Science indeed. One dummy trying to knock off another dummy with a bit of a stick.
* Yes. That boy's got real spark, lots of spirit. Throws himself, heart and soul, into everything he does. And that's really worth something. If it could only be turned in the right direction.
* Oh, I intend to cheat of course. Use magic! Every last trick in the trade if, I have to.
* [teaching Arthur to swim as a fish] Now, there are lots of ups and downs like, like a... like a helicopter.
* [about Archimedes] When he stays out all night, he's always grumpy the next morning.
* Yes, y... oh. Well, no, never mind.
* Don't take gravity too lightly or it'll catch up with you.
* Gravity is what causes you to fall.
* Yes, it's like a stumble or a... No, no, no, no, no. It's the force that pulls you downward, the... the phenomenon that any two material particles or bodies, if free to move, will be accelerated toward each other.
* Oh, well, what's wrong with that? After all, my boy, you ARE a fish. Instinct, you know.
* Yes! Oh... oh, I did? Well that's-that's neither here nor there.
* Who, me?
* Now, Archimedes. Why would you half-drown yourself for a tidbit of fish, eh?, and after such a big breakfast?
* No one will know the difference, son. Who cares as long as the work gets done?
* By George! I've had enough of this nonsense! ALAKAZAM! [In an atom bomb explosion, Merlin changes back into a human, causing the granny squirrel to scream.] There! Now you see? I'm an ugly, horrible, grouchy old man!
* So, here we are.
* Snick, snack, snorum!
* Ah, you know, lad... that love business is a powerful thing.
* Well, yes, boy, in its way, I'd, uh- Yes, I'd say it's the greatest force on Earth.
* You call washing dishes and sweeping floors a work of evil?
* [firmly] Madame, you won't! [disappears in a puff of smoke]
* I'm sorry, lad. Sorry I spoiled everything. I know that trip to London meant a great deal to you.
* No, no, you're in a great spot, boy. You can't go down now, it can only be up from here.
* Use your head, and education, lad.
* Get it first, and who knows? Are you willing to try?
* [patting his back] That's the spirit! We'll start tomorrow! We'll show 'em, won't we, boy?
* Yes. Yes, that's right, and it also, uh, goes A-round.
* No, no, no, it's round now. Man will discover this in centuries to come. And he will also find that the world is merely a tiny speck in the universe.
* Archimedes, have you seen that flying machine model?
* Hmm? Oh, yes, of course. Here we are.
* [winding up the propeller of the model airplane, but not noticing his long beard getting caught in it] I am about to prove otherwise, Archimedes, if you care to watch. Here she goes! [He tosses it out the window] No, no, no - NO! [The plane unravels from his beard at the wrong angle, and starts to fall out of the sky.]
* It would have worked if... if it weren't for this infernal beard! [Archimedes continues to laugh hysterically.] Man will fly someday, I tell you! I have been there! I have seen it!
* [grabbing him in one hand] Hold it, boy! Not so fast, not so fast. First, I'd better explain the mechanics of a bird's wing. [grabs Archimedes' wing and runs his finger along the feathers] Now, these large feathers are called the primaries, and--
* I have made an extensive study of birds in flight, and--
* All right, Mr. Know-It-All! He's your pupil!
* Rule 4: No cheating!
* [nervously] Now, Mim! No dragons, remember?
* Madam, I have not disappeared. I'm very tiny. I am a germ. A rare disease. I am called malignalitaloptereosis... and you caught me, Mim!
* [disapprovingly] Ha!
* Yes indeed. A fine monkey suit for polishing boots!
* And I thought you were going to amount to something! [Gets up out of his chair] I thought you had a few brains! [Kicks over a stack of books] Great future! Hah! A stooge for that big lunk, Kay! Congratulations, boy!
* And I thought you were going to amount to something! [Gets up out of his chair] I thought you had a few brains! [Kicks over a stack of books] Great future! Hah! A stooge for that big lunk, Kay! Congratulations, boy!
* Bermuda? Yes, back from Bermuda and the 20th century! And believe me, you can have it! One big modern mess! Alakazam! [magically changes back into his regular clothes]
* [surprised] Aha! Of course, of course! King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table!
* Oh, would you rather have a square one?
* Boy, boy, boy.... You'll become a great legend. They'll be writing books about you for centuries to come. Why, they might even make a motion picture about you.
* Well, uh.... that's something like television. Without commercials.
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