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

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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
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
Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.
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Care Character Fight Monster
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
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing
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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Children Disguise Father Funny Imagination Mother Parents Wonderful
What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
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Believe Fellow Fortunate Myself Positive Time
If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.
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Book Business Entrepreneur Inspirational Life Success
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
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
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.
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Come Dreams Imagination Inspirational True
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
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Come Invention Pleasure Story Writing
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
I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Memories School Shoes Stair

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