Carlo Collodi Quotes

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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

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

Carlo Collodi

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

Carlo Collodi

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

Carlo Collodi

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

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

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

Carlo Collodi

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

Carlo Collodi

In school today, I'll learn to read, to-morrow to write, and the day after to-morrow I'll do arithmetic.

Carlo Collodi

Carlo Collodi

Carlo Collodi

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Born: November 24, 1826

Died: October 26, 1890 (aged 63)

Bio: Carlo Lorenzini, better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was a children's writer born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and writer of the world-renowned fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

Known for:

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)
I racconti delle fate
The Patua Pinocchio
Giannettino (1877)
Minuzzolo (1877)

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