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‘Look what is sticking to the ugly old fir tree,’ said the child, treading on the branches till they crackled under his boots. And the tree saw all the fresh bright flowers in the garden, and then looked at itself, and wished it had
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“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“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
“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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“But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.”
― In the Mountains
― In the Mountains
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