More from Arthur Ransome

  1. When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.
  2. 'Only, the beastly Arctic won't freeze,'
  3. They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.
  4. Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.
  5. A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
  6. Houses, are but badly built boats so firmly aground that you cannot think of moving them. They are definitely inferior things, belonging to…
  7. Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
  8. A lot of things were lucky,' said Daddy, and suddenly, while they were walking along, brought his hand down on John's shoulder and gave it …

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