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The Little Colonel at Boarding-School by Annie Fellows Johnston

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'How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.'

“Be sure to enjoy language, experiment with ways of talking, be exuberant even when you don't feel like it because language can make your world a better place to live.”
― Deborah Levy, Pillow Talk in Europe and Other Places

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“My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have as much fun as I possibly can, and then die.”
― Susun Weed

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“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: renewal, summer

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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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