"I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time."

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Source : Carolyn Keene (1963). “Nancy Drew 08: Nancy's Mysterious Letter”, p.74, Penguin

Carolyn Keene

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“But what I do I do because I like to do.”
“God giveth true grace to but a chosen few, however many aspire to it.”
“Competence is a big word. It is important. I almost want to nuance it with the idea of giftedness because sometimes you can teach a lot of skills on exposition but a person may not have the competence or the giftedness to do it. Therefore, it is very important to have that.”
“I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes of peaceful persuasion applied to material problems rather than through wars, riots and bloodshed.”
“I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus.”
“For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will.”
“The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.”
“A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”

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