It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.
ROALD DAHLAll the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.
More Roald Dahl Quotes
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I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?
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Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.
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Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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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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A little magic can take you a long way.
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Don’t gobblefunk around with words.
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Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents.
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Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.
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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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If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
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Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Obscurity is never a virtue.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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