Carlo Collodi Quotes

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• Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.
• A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.
• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day…
• Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it…
• Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it…
• Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
• What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same…
• Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!
• Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then…
• Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers
• Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road…
• How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
• How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
• Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block…
• A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger,…
• A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
• At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he…
• Lie to me Pinocchio

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