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Careful those who fight with monsters, that they might become monsters themeselves.

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Rainbow drops – suck them and you can spit in six different colours.
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Colour Different Drops Rainbow
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
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Away Beg Book Place Television Throw Wall
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
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Book Business Greatness Hide Place Secret
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
Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.
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Eat Giant
I am suspicious of both facility and speed.
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Facility Speed Suspicious Writing
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
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Alcohol Need Room Writer
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
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
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Birthday Children Complicated Creature Grow Up Secret
Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.
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Away Motivational Unbelievable Want Work Hard
Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Funny Humour One Liner World
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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Eyes Fake Father Impossible Smile Twinkle Yourself
There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.
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Comparison Deep Imagination Place Pure Reality
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
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Important Modesty Oneself Strive Truth Writing
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
When you’re writing, it’s rather like going on a very long walk.
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Walk Writing

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