Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.

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But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance