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The Essential Collection for Young Readers QUOTES

The Essential Collection for Young Readers QUOTES

1 " It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere, "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

2 " above my head. I shrank away, but the hornbill made no attempt to attack me. He was relaxing in his home, which was a great hole in the tree trunk. Only the bird’s head and great beak were showing. He looked at me in rather a bored way, drowsily opening and shutting his eyes. ‘So many creatures live here,’ I said to myself. ‘I hope none of them is dangerous!’ At that moment the hornbill lunged at a passing cricket. Bill and tree trunk met with a loud and resonant ‘Tonk!’ I was so startled that I nearly fell out of the tree. But it was a difficult tree to fall out of! It was full of places where one could sit or even lie down. So I moved away from the hornbill, crawled along a branch which had sent out supports, and so moved quite a distance from the main body of the tree. I left its cold, dark "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

3 " spruce "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

4 " A Scout smiles and whistles under all difficulties.’ And "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

5 " Mozambique and Timbuctoo. We took long walks together, explored old ruins, chased butterflies and waved to passing "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

6 " It is better to be a human without any gifts than a Jinn or a genius with one too many. "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

7 " Hitler’s signature is ugly, as you would expect. "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

8 " Chota "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers

9 " stars are the spirits of good men, "

― Ruskin Bond , The Essential Collection for Young Readers