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Seven of the best book quotes about great
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“Like a great glaring eye, then, the light searched about. It flashed past the trees down the steep rocky bluff And it searched high and low, but not quite high enough.”
Bill Peet
author
The Caboose Who Got Loose
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“If I could sit high, how much greater I’d be! What a king! I’d be ruler of all I could see!”
Dr. Seuss
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Yertle the Turtle
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“But almost all of the time I know that I am more than That Giraffe Girl, I am the one and only Geraldine and I am Really Great.”
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″ ‘That was a great shot’, says the little boy. ‘The best and longest anyone has kicked on our street.’ ‘Do you really think so?’ says Alfie? Now he is happy, too.”
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″ ‘Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!’ ‘That is the better to hug thee, my dear’ ‘Grandmama, what great legs you have got!’ ‘That is to run the better, my child’ ‘Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!’ ‘That is to hear the better, my child’ ‘Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!’ ‘It is to see the better, my child’. ”
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″...people must not tyrannize, nor try to be great because they are little.”
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Looking Forward When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great, And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

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