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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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“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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“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“What a blessing it is to love books.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
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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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