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The night crackled. . . Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

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E. M. Delafield

The best and most popular novelists do not, as a rule, have children in their books at all, and this is wise. Parents are about the only people who are interested in children, and they merely in their own ones.

Book, Children, Merely, Wise
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Always remember, me dear, whether you're listening to a tale or telling one: Every penny piece that's struck has two sides to it.

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A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience.

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She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading.

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Does not a misplaced optimism exist, common to all mankind, leading on to false conviction that social engagements, if dated sufficiently far ahead, will never really materialize?

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Most Englishmen are convinced that God is an Englishman, probably educated at Eton.

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