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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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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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English Mathematics Powerful Rule Simplicity Strict Truth
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
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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Children Inspirational Learning Look Risk Success
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
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
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.
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Couple Love Matter
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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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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The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
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I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing

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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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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