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• I think everyone in the world is friends if you can only get them to see you don't want to be un-friends.
• I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have…
• There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and…
• A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
• The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city…
• The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at…
• I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small…
• It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
• It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
• This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch…
• People think six is a great many, when it's children. ...they don't mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples,…
• Then suddenly Jack was a changed boy. Something wonderful had happened to him, and it had made him different. It sometimes happened…

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