“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
―
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"
and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”
―
“Maybe we are all cabinets of wonders.”
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense,
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
But good men starve for want of impudence.”
― The Poetical Works of John Dryden
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