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“Except a living man there is nothing more wonderful than a book! A message from the dead - from human souls we never saw, who lived, perhaps, thousands of miles away. And yet these, in those little...”
“I hope so,” grumbled Ian. “I’m going to look for another one of ‘em winged dogs for Mabel.”
“That’s all there is to life, you know. Fun things, we just need to remember to enjoy them or we waste it all.”
“Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It’s truly amazing.”
“Hold on, hold on, hold on,” said the Hooded Person of Unknown Gender. “Are you really here to slay a dragon?”“Yes! Why else would I be so far from home?”“Sightseeing?” suggested the Female.”
“No time better than the present,’ I always say. Or was that, ‘Nothing is better than a present’? I forget.”
“Seriously?” Spartacus looked amazed. “I thought this looked the same to everyone. We’re in a massive library that stretches all the way to the sky. It’s beautiful, with oak and teak shelves, gorgeo...”
“Today he told Erec “Fun is for having. It is the one thing that is forever.” Erec agreed.”
“The world goes up and the world goes down And the sunshine follows the rain And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown Can never come over again.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever.”
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”
“Do noble things do not dream them all day long.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who can be clever.”
“Be good sweet maid and let who will be clever Do noble things not dream them all day long And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”
“He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.”
“And so make life death and that vast forever One grand sweet song.”
“Do today's duty fight today's temptation do not weaken and distract yourself by looking forward to things you cannot see and could not understand if you saw them.”
“The world is God's world after all.”
“If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”
“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric...”
