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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Roald Dahl

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
ROALD DAHL

Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.
ROALD DAHL

Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
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Book Done Life Reading View
Kindness – that simple word. To be kind – it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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Courtesy Kindness Mind Positive
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Absolute Appreciation Delight Home Impossible School Young
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
ROALD DAHL

Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
ROALD DAHL

Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration Writing
I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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Book Care Finish Hate Reading Story
But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.
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Chance Grow Up Inspirational Work Hard

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

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