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It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Roald Dahl

I’m right and you’re wrong, I’m big and you’re small, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Humour Right Wrong
No book ever ends, when it’s full of your friends.
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Book Ending Friendship
When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.
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Children Deserve Grow Up Parents Remember Spark
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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Different Drain Fiction Leaving People Place Writing
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
Life is more fun if you play games.
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Fun Game Life One Liner Play
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
Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.
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Choose Important Inspirational Power
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn’t go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
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Desk Force Himself Scold Writing
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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Inspirational Life Original Realize Routune Salary Simplicity Thinking
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Enjoyment Men Nonsense Wisdom
Perhaps it’s chasing me. But I don’t think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.
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Attitute Catch Chase Fast Inspirational
Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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Doctor Doubt Endurance Expectation Face Happiness Jump Night Pain Towel
You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.
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Book Children Humour Writing
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
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Performance Prefer Punishment Task
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

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