Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.