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101 " But if you smile too constantly, the smile is apt to get fixed like the smile of the hyaena. "
― E. Nesbit
102 " Those of us who have had the misfortune to be caught in a net in the execution of our military duty, and to be dragged away by the enemy with all the helpless buoyancy of captive balloons, will be able to appreciate the sensations of the four children to whom this gloomy catastrophe had occurred.Wet Magic, beginning of Chapter 10. "
103 " Oh, Len, isn’t she a darling? Just because she saw how our Bandboxful of furniture would rattle about in that big house like a peanut in a cocoanut shell, to lend us all hers! She is a darling. "
― E. Nesbit , The Red House
104 " Vous attendre. Ma mere parlez Francais. Nous "
― E. Nesbit , The Railway Children
105 " My princess," he said tenderly, "two great powers are on our side: the power of love and the power of arithmetic. Those two are stronger than anything else in the world. "
― E. Nesbit , The Book of Dragons
106 " I would kiss you on every one of your thousand spears,' she said, 'to give you what you wish.''Kiss me once,' it said, 'where my fur is soft. That is all I wish, and enough to live and die for. "
― E. Nesbit , The Magic World
107 " Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it! "
108 " Please dismiss any fears which you may entertain that after this Maurice became a model boy. He didn’t. But he was much nicer than before. "
109 " [I]t is most trying to feel enormously hungry and unspeakably sinful at one and the same time. "
― E. Nesbit , Five Children and It (Five Children #1)