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Edgar Allan Poe
W hen wits and wine and friends have met
And laughter crowns the festive hour
In vain I struggle to forget
Still does my hesrt confess thy power”Edgar Allan Poe
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Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly
Lovers pluck off the leaves, and as they pluck each leaf, they ask a question about their lovers; thus: “Does he or she love me?—Ardently? Distractedly? Very much? A little? Not at all?” and so on.”
Hans Christian Andersen, The Butterfly
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A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,” said Pooh. “There there,” said Piglet. “I’ll bring you tea and honey until you do.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
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the little prince
One day,” you said to me, “I saw the sunset forty-four times!”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The little prince
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Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
Oh, please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!”
Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
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Grimm Brothers’s fairy tales, Hans My Hedgehog
And she gave him the name Hans. “Hans my hedgehog,” she called him. Yes, the mother loved her baby all right. But not everybody did.”
Grimm Brothers’s fairy tales, Hans My Hedgehog
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Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies
Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen”
Ruth Krauss, Open House for Butterflies
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Romeo and Juliet
Good-night, good-night! Parting is such sweet sorrow
That I shall say good-night till it be morrow.”William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet