Mary Norton Quotes

#1. would flower; and where birds came - and pecked

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#2. The child is right," she announced firmly.
Arrietty's eyes grew big. "Oh, no-" she began. It shocked her to be right. Parents were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arrietty knew, and enjoy saying it-knowing always they were safe and wrong.

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#3. In this life," he went on, "you got to see what is, as you might say, and then face up to what you wish there wasn't.

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#4. The Past is Experience, Thats All You Got to Learn From.

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#5. Homily would renew it at intervals when it became available upstairs, but since Aunt Sophy

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#6. It's so awful and sad," she once admitted to Tom Goodenough, "to belong to a race that no sane person believes in.

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#7. Misfortunes make us wise

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#8. I don't think human beans are all that bad-"
"They're bad and they're good," said Pod; "they're honest and they're artful- it's just as it takes them at the moment".

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#9. I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

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#10. Mrs. May looked back at her. "Kate," she said after a moment, "stories never really end. They can go on and on and on. It's just that sometimes, at a certain point, one stops telling them.

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