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all, the workforce in the park numbered four thousand. The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake.1 His son
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“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
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“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
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