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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

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.
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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.
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Start Wonder World
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.
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Allow Inspirational Music Positive Understand Wash Worry
If you are good life is good.
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Goodness Life One Liner Positive
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
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
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.
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Advantage Book Comfortable Excitement Kids Learning Passion Reading
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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Business Change Inspirational Power World
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
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
It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.
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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.
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Mind Tragedy Twist Writer Writing
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.
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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Business Calculator Confidence Inspirational Mathematics Myself Pocket Work Hard
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
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.
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Business Eyes Greatness Hide Inspirational Place Secret World

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