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The Rat, meanwhile, was busy examining the label on one of the beer-bottles. "I perceive this to be Old Burton," he remarked…
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Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.
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A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The…
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The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it…
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Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and…
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As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that…
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You are brave! For my sake, do not be rash!
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The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily,…
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Weasels--and stoats--and foxes--and so on. They're all right in a way--I'm very good friends with them--pass the time of day when we…
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There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout…
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The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent--I name no names. It…
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There is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
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Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.
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Tea had come as a deliverer to a land that called for deliverance; a land of beef and ale, of heavy eating…
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Jackson possessed the brutality essential in war; Lee did not. He could clasp the hand of a wounded enemy, whilst Jackson ground…
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When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort,…
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God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us…
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Ourselves are cosmic and capacious beyond conjecture, and to experience some notion of the planetary perspective is the richest income from travelling.…
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Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
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But happiness ... happiness grows at our own firesides," she said. "It is not to be picked in strangers' gardens." ~ The…
— Kate Morton
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The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on…
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