To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
ROALD DAHLI 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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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
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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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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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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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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
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When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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If you are good life is good.
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I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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f I were a headmaster I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead.
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I’m wondering what to read next.
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