Carlo Collodi - The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883)

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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