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  1. Sep 2019
    1. hoped that their friends, who had been so numerous while they were rich, would insist on their staying in their houses now they no longer possessed one. But they soon found that they were left alone, and that their former friends even attributed their misfortunes to their own extravagance, and showed no intention of offering them any help

      This is why you can't trust people because they're only there when you're on top and nobody is there when you're down

    2. Their father, who had till this moment prospered in all ways, suddenly lost every ship he had on the sea, either by dint of pirates, shipwreck, or fire.

      That's why it's not good to care too much about materialistic things.

    3. Their house caught fire and was speedily burnt to the ground, with all the splendid furniture, the books, pictures, gold, silver, and precious goods it contained

      They really cared about the materialistic objects.

    1. Reading ‘more’ is always a good thing, but not the solution.footnote1

      I believe reading more would always help us out to understand better and to develop more in our writing skills.

    1. There once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children saw that.

      Parents shouldn't be doing that in front of their kids because since their parents are doing that they think it's right.

    2. did not know what they should do to the boy, for they realized it had all been part of a children's game.

      Children really don't know their wrongs and rights.

    3. threw him to the ground, and slit his throat open with a knife, while the assistant cook caught the blood in her little bowl.

      how could they even think of playing like this at such a young age?

    1. The fairy way of reading allows a conversation about omniscience into an undergraduate classroom care of The Hobbit, whose first few pages are exemplary – as exemplary as Tolstoy – in the technique.

      Meaning we won't have much trouble understanding it if we do the fairy way of reading as they say in the article.

    2. highlights these elements and brings them into high relief.

      I believe this is way better because they're changing it to be better un understanding.

    3. From this sort of story no reader can escape unchanged back into the world outside of the story,

      Different point of view once you read these stories

    4. The fairy way does not represent a world.  The fairy way is a path to a world. 

      Meaning there's different ways of getting there and the fairy way is one of them

    1. the Author represents any Passion, Appetite, Virtue or Vice, under a visible Shape, and makes it a Person or an Actor in his Poem.

      Big part of a poem !

    2. which he had in so great Perfection, throughly qualified him to touch this weak superstitious Part of his Reader's Imagination

      I think what he's trying to say is that by the way he expresses himself he can get to the person's imagination and make him see how really are.

    3. These Descriptions raise a pleasing kind of Horrour in the Mind of the Reader, and amuse his Imagination with the Strangeness and Novelty of the Persons who are represented in them

      His descriptions can actually make the persons feel or see what he's actually talking about.