Anne

“There is many a true word written in jest.”
― H g wells, War of the Worlds: Blood of Mars

“but we thought perhaps the G. B.—it is short for Generous Benefactor—would not like it if there were so many of us. I have often noticed that it is the worst of our being six—people think six a great many, when it’s children. That sentence looks wrong somehow. I mean they don’t mind six pairs of boots, or six pounds of apples, or six oranges, especially in equations, but they seem to think you ought not to have five brothers and sisters.”
― Edith Nesbit, The Story of the Treasure Seekers

“Mrs. Peterson was such a nice good mother! All mothers are more or less, but Mrs. Peterson was nice and good all more and no less.”
― George MacDonald, The Princess and the Goblin

“The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie.”
― Mark Twain