There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch .. . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers .. . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc. William Makepeace Thackeray
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  1. To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

  2. Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?

  3. Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it.

  4. It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

  5. There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

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