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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

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
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Greatmess Incident Life Number
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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Inspirational One Liner Person Positive Ugly
A little magic can take you a long way.
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Business Inspirational Magic One Liner Patience Positive
I’m wondering what to read next.
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Book Learning Reading Wonder
Good writing is essentially rewriting.
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Essential One Liner Writing
The walls were wet and sticky, and peach juice was dripping from the ceiling. James opened his mouth and caught some of it on his tongue. It tasted delicious.
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Delicious Food Juice Taste Wall
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
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
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
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
If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn’t have invented rollar skates.
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Humour Intend Invention Lord Walk
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
We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Dreamer Dreams Music
The snozberries taste like snozberries!
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Food Fruit One Liner Taste
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk 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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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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