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You see, we are all dying. It's only a matter of time. Some of us just die sooner than others.

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E. Nesbit

The ones as big as sheep were easier to avoid, because you could see them coming, but when they flew in at the window and curled up under your eiderdown, and you did not find them till you went to bed, it was always a shock. The ones this size did not eat people, only lettuces, but they always scorched the sheets and pillowcases dreadfully.

Avoid, Dragons, People, Sheep, Sheets, Under
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One of the uses of poetry - one says it to oneself in distressing circumstances,. . . or when one has to wait at railway stations, or when one cannot get to sleep at night.

Night, Poetry, Says, Sleep

Time is but a mode of thought

Mode, Thought, Time

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that's best for us. " Do you really believe that, Mother?" Peter asked quietly. Yes," she said, "I do believe it--almost always--except when I'm so sad that I can't believe anything. But even when I don't believe it, I know it's true--and I try to believe it.

Mistake, Mistakes, Mother, Nice, Think

The chestnut's proud, and the lilac's pretty, The poplar's gentle and tall, But the plane tree's kind to the poor dull city - I love him best of all.

Cities, Gentle, I Love Him, Love, Poor, Tree

When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.

Believe, Dullest, Flat, Magic, People
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