Carlo Collodi Quotes

#1. A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.

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#2. What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

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#3. Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

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#4. Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

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#5. If only sugar were medicine! I should take it every day.

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#6. When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

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#7. At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

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#8. Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

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#9. Hunger is the best cook.

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#10. A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

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#11. Don't trust to those who promise to make you rich in a day. Usually they are either mad or rogues!

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#12. Lies, my dear boy, can easily be recognized. There are two kind of them: those with short legs, and those with long noses. Your kind have long noses.

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#13. Where are the gold pieces now?' the Fairy asked.
'I lost them,' answered Pinocchio, but he told a lie, for he had them in his pocket.
As he spoke, his nose, long though it was, became at least two inches longer.

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#14. Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

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#15. Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

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#16. Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

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#17. If your heart is in your dream, no request is to extreme.

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#18. A boy's appetite grows very fast, and in a few moments the queer, empty feeling had become hunger, and the hunger grew bigger and bigger, until soon he was as ravenous as a bear.

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#19. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

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#20. How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!

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#21. Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

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#22. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.

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#23. As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.

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#24. Lies, my dear boy, are found out immediately, because they are of two sorts. There are lies that have short legs, and lies that have long noses. Your lie, as it happens, is one of those that have a long nose.

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#25. How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.

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