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“The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.”
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“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
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“If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.”
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“We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.”
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“The most useless are those who never change through the years.”
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“I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.”
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“Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.”
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“The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.”
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“There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.”
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“As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.”
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“For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.”
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“Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.”
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“Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
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“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
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“Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!”
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“The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.”
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“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?”
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“A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.”
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“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”
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“We are all failures - at least the best of us are.”
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“His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.”
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“Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.”
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“When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.”
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“Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.”
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“The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.”
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“It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.”
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