"When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening."

Source : E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1496, Delphi Classics

E. Nesbit

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