This is why I shall not tell you in this story about all the days when nothing happened. You will not catch me saying, 'thus the sad days passed slowly by'--or 'the years rolled on their weary course'--or 'time went on'--because it is silly; of course time goes on--whether you say so or not. So I shall just tell you the nice, interesting parts--and in between you will understand that we had our meals and got up and went to bed, and dull things like that.
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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