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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.

Roald Dahl

Obscurity is never a virtue.
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One Liner Virtue Vulger
Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.
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Advice Comment Entrepreneur Ignorance Understand Value
If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.
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Calender Extra Humour Remove
You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?
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Book Difference Look
But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.
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Distraction Impossible Love Person replace
I have found it impossible to talk to anyone about my problems.
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Finding Impossible Problem Talk
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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
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.
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Book Children Grow Up Joke Old Writing
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
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Breakfast Food Humour Pencil
lalalalalalallalalallalalalal have nothing to say.
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Funny Humour
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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Biography Book Bore Detail Humour Life Person
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.
ROALD DAHL

Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself

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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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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