E. Nesbit Quotes - Page 2

• I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

  E. Nesbit

  Writing, People, Wonder

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

  E. Nesbit

  Thinking, Clothes, Littles

  E. Nesbit (2013). “The House of Arden”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is but a mode of thought

  E. Nesbit

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• ...Albert-next-door doesn't care for reading, and he has not read nearly so many books as we have, so he is very foolish and ignorant, but it cannot be helped... Besides, it is wrong to be angry with people for not being so clever as you are yourself.

  E. Nesbit

  Clever, Book, Reading

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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