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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever. - Quote by Frank McCourt

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they’d be lost forever.

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Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
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Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.
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Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
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Rest your eyes and then read till they fall out of your head.
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They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.
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He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling.
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You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas, it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
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I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin
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