Ladylike is the beastliest word there is, I think. If a girl isn't a lady, it isn't worth while to be only like one, she'd better let it alone and be a free and happy bounder.
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid … - E. Nesbit
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is very ill-paid …
- E. Nesbit
Time and space are only forms of thought. - E. Nesbit
Time and space are only forms of thought.
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to… - E. Nesbit
There is a curtain, thin as gossamer, clear as glass, strong as iron, that hangs forever between the world of magic and the world that seems to us to…
Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough. - E. Nesbit
Life will give you what you ask of here if only you ask long enough and plainly enough.
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't. - E. Nesbit
It is a curious thing that people only ask if you are enjoying yourself when you aren't.
everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on. - E. Nesbit
everything has an end, and you get to it if you only keep on.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing. - E. Nesbit
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books. - E. Nesbit
There is no bond like the bond of having read and liked the same books.
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, a… - E. Nesbit
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, a…
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