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Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea,
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Germ of endearment
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It wouldn't do to go mixing up the present and the past, and cutting bits out of one to fit into the other.
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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.
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This shows you that even mistakes are sometimes valuable, so do not be hard on grown-up people if they are wrong sometimes.
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Time is but a mode of thought
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It's not respectable,' she said.
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit
And when people say that, it's no use
anyone's saying anything. — E. Nesbit
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 - I love him best of all.
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There are a thousand spears in my back,' said a little sharp voice, 'and they are all devoted to the Princess and to her alone.
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Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.
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But it's raining cats and dogs,' said Jane.
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Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder ...
— Eleanor Brown
Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.
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Robert rushed to the gravel-pit, found the Psammead, and presently wished for - But that, too, is another story.
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Yes, I know," Lionel interrupted. "Well, I shall read them all. I love to read. I am so glad I learned to read.
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Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.
— Liz Williams
Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.
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Time and space are only forms of thought.
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Gerald's look assured her that he and the others would be as near angels as children could be without ceasing to be human.
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I don't understand," says Gerald, alone in his third- class carriage, "how railway trains and magic can go on at the same time."
And yet they do. — E. Nesbit
And yet they do. — E. Nesbit
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.
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Don't ask me no questions and I won't tell you no lies," the red-headed Ruth replied. "You'll know soon enough." Late
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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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I think magic went out when people began to have steam-engines, and newspapers, and telephones and wireless telegraphing.
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When the next Saturday came around everyone was a little nervous, but the Red Dragon was pretty quiet that day and only ate an Orphanage.
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They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep or some better place.
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It was to keep it whole.
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It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done.
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The rule of the giant's wife, a most worthy woman, whose only fault was that she was to ready to trust boys.
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Being editors is not the best way to wealth. We all feel this now, and highwaymen are not respected any more like they used to be.
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There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done
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And where are you going?"
"I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to."
Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5. — E. Nesbit
"I dunno," said the Spangled Boy. "I'm running from, not to."
Book: Wet Magic, Chapter 5. — E. Nesbit