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Edith Nesbit

The Phoenix and the Carpet

  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    The sorrows of youth soon appear but as dreams,
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    Of course, we are all pleased to suffer for the sake of others, but we like them to know it unless we are the very best and noblest kind of people, and Robert was just ordinary.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    There is nothing like light when you are afraid of burglars—or of anything else, for that matter.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    'Everything has two ends,' said the Phoenix, softly; 'even a quarrel or a secret passage.'
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    and there was a new cook who looked so like a frightened rabbit that no one had the heart to do anything to frighten her any more than seemed natural to her.
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    'I warn you,' said Cyril, solemnly. 'Beware, ere yet it be too late.'
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    She's a cantankerous cat
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    'I did tell you, you know,' said the Phoenix, 'only you are so fond of listening to the music of your own voices. It is, indeed, the most lovely music to each of us, and therefore—'
  • missninahas quoted4 years ago
    but, of course, a carpet's only a carpet, whereas a Phoenix is superlatively a Phoenix.
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