These gardens are green, because green is the color that most pleases and soothes men's eyes; and however you may shut people up between bars of yellow and mud color, and however hard you may make the...
Don't bother about believing it, if you don't like it,' said the Princess. 'It doesn't so much matter what you believe as what I am.
This dire emergency, to meet only the beautiful eyes of perfect strangers, instead of the merry, friendly, commonplace, twinkling, jolly little eyes of its own brothers and sisters. This is most truly...
Over smooth,
Glorious
We haven't really got anything worth having for our wishes.''We've had things happening,' said Robert; 'that's always something.''It's not enough, unless they're the right things,' said Cyril firmly.
They call it love, said Vernon. I don't know what they mean by it. What do mean [by love]?I don't exactly know, said Temple slowly. I suppose it's wanting to be with a person, and thinking about noth...
Sometimes she would sigh when she opened them and say:— Another story come home to roost. Oh, dear, Oh, dear! and then the children would be very sorry.
Psammead
Perhaps she did more than anyone else, for she slapped the King and put him to bed without his tea,
My Lamb, you are so very small, You have not learned to read at all; Yet never a printed book withstands The urgence of your dimpled hands. So, though this book is for yourself, Let mother keep it on...
How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!
Daddy dear, I'm only fourAnd I'd rather not be more.Four's the nicest age to be,Two and two and one and three.What I love is two and two,Mother, Peter, Phil, and you.What you love is one and three,Mot...
Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself. It is not always their faults.
Aunt Emily says grown-ups never really like playing. They do it to please us.They little know, Gerald answered, how often we do it to please them.
More.
Yes, I know, Lionel interrupted. Well, I shall read them all. I love to read. I am so glad I learned to read.
They reached the station and spent a joyous two hours with the Porter. He was a worthy man and seemed never tired of answering the questions that begin with Why— which many people in higher ranks of l...
They didn't know being dead is only being asleep, and you're bound to wake up somewhere or other, either where you go to sleep or some better place.
Q. Where shall we go? A. To the railway.