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“My uncle once told me that too much caution may lead to death as certainly as too much rashness.”

“Maud Hart Lovelace creates a charming world of happiness, love, and beauty as she describes the lives of Betsy and Tacy, two little girls growing up as friends.”

“Herbert,” said I, laying my hand upon his knee, “I love—I adore—Estella.”

“I suspect that many will not be satisfied with the simpler way of life.”

“The first gain is ours! Check to the King!”

“It was Silver’s voice, and before I had heard a dozen words, I would not have shown myself for all the world, but lay there, trembling and listening, in the extreme of fear and curiosity, for from these dozen words I understood that the lives of all the honest men aboard depended upon me alone.”

“Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan”

“A week’s detention would not prevent Jan from stealing again. Could Ruth prevent him? She was a remarkable girl and, if anybody could help him, it was she. But after five years of war and twisted living, such cases were too often beyond remedy.”

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”

“Sometimes I feel like I’ve got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I’m the bread.”