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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.

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
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
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Doubt Human Nature Relationship Rumor Sure
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
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life.
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Beginning Enthusiasm Important Life Realize
Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.
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Children Fairy Tale Laugh Scare
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
Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.
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Animal Human Kill
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Diary English Father Perfection Writing
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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Inspirational Perspiration 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
Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.
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Children Lord Strave Strength
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
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
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
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Book Ideas Poet Reason Writing
Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Children Fault Parents Spoil

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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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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