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Four of the best book quotes about being good
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“It’s bedtime for the little red chicken and Papa is going to read her a story. ‘You’re not going to interrupt the story tonight, are you?’ asks Papa. ‘Oh no, Papa. I’ll be good,’ says the little Red Chicken.”
David Ezra Stein
author
Interrupting Chicken
book
being good
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bedtime
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going to read a story
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children fiction
concepts
02
“Old Tom tried to be good...though sometimes he was a bit naughty. ‘Aren’t you a little too old for such things?’ Angela Throgmorton often asked. ”
Leigh Hobbs
author
Old Tom book
book
Old Tom
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Angela
characters
being good
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pet behavior
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bit naughty
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relationships
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mothers
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pets
concepts
03
“The boy wanted to tell them how he regretted that he had been unkind to them; and that never, never-from now on- should he be anything but good.”
Selma Lagerlof
author
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
book
Nils Holgersson
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the cows
characters
regret
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apologies
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wanting
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unkind
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being good
concepts
04
″‘Becky Thatcher. What’s yours? Oh, I know. It’s Thomas Sawyer.’ ‘That’s the name they lick me by. I’m Tom when I’m good. You call me Tom, will you?‘”
Mark Twain
author
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
book
Becky Thatcher
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Tom Sawyer
characters
names
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be in trouble
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nicknames
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being good
concepts
Source: Chapter 6, Paragraph 144
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