Carlo Collodi Quotes

• Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it can never be cured.

  Carlo Collodi

  Childhood, Woe, Illness

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• A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

  Carlo Collodi

  Voice, People, Stills

  "Fictional character: Jiminy Cricket". "Pinocchio", www.imdb.com. 1940.

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• Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything.

  Carlo Collodi

  Puppets, Spoil

  Carlo Collodi (1916). “Pinocchio: The Story of a Puppet”

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• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

  Carlo Collodi

  Country, Sunday, Vacation

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers

  Carlo Collodi

  Crazy, People, Promise

  Carlo Collodi, Roberto Innocenti (1988). “The Adventures of Pinocchio Le Avventure Di Pinocchio. English”

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• What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.

  Carlo Collodi

  School, What Matters, Lessons

  Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.105, First Avenue Editions

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• When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.

  Carlo Collodi

  Mean, Boys, Poverty

  Carlo Collodi, Collodi Nipote (2012). “The Pinocchio Megapack: 4 Classic Puppet Tales”, p.26, Wildside Press LLC

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• Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.

  Carlo Collodi

  Father, Night, Long

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.159, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Today at school I will learn to read at once; then tomorrow I will begin to write, and the day after tomorrow to cipher. Then with my acquirements I will earn a great deal of money, and with the first money I have in my pocket I will immediately buy for my papa a beautiful new cloth coat. But what am I saying? Cloth, indeed! It shall be all made of gold and silver, and it shall have diamond buttons. That poor man really deserves it; for to buy me books and to have me taught he has remained in his shirt sleeves... And in this cold! It is only fathers who are capable of such sacrifices!

  Carlo Collodi

  Beautiful, Father, Book

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• Would it be possible to find a more ungrateful boy, or one with less heart than I have!

  Carlo Collodi

  Heart, Boys, Ungrateful

  Carlo Collodi (2015). “Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet”, p.92, First Avenue Editions

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• Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

  Carlo Collodi

  Growing Up, Men, Lazy Man

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