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Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.


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My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.



If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.



Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.



I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.



Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.



And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.



I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.



The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.



I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.

I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.



Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!





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Find time for a private conversation with your creator so that you can ask Him about the purpose of your existence

Find time for a private conversation with your creator so that you can ask Him about the purpose of your existence



You don't drown by falling in the water

You don't drown by falling in the water



No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.

No man who ever lived knows any more about the hereafter than you and I.



Faces ...I ...don't ...know ...the real ...me

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Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.



When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.

When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.



The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.

The gray area, the place between black and white - that's the place where life happens.



I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.

I had a stutter 'till... I still do today. I just work on it a lot. I obsess, if you will, with it, but I stuttered throughout my childhood.



Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.



How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.

How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.




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