"When you are young so many things are……" — E. Nesbit
"When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening."
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22 Quotes by E. Nesbit
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A red, red rose, all wet with dew, With leaves of green by red shot through.
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It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
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