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““So labour at your Alphabet, For by that learning shall you get To lands where Fairies may be met.””

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An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

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Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

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“I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who…

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Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the…

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“He loathes what he has left behind him, and it is natural to guess that, in his first years of priesthood, his religious nature…

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Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha.

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If the wild bowler thinks he bowls, Or if the batsman thinks he's bowled, They know not, poor misguided souls, They, too, shall perish…

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O grant me a house by the beach of a bay, Where the waves can be surly in winter, and play With the sea-weed…

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“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about…

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“For, as I told you, Good deeds bear their own fruit!”

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