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Johanna Spyri

  • ... whoever has done a wrong deed and thinks that no one knows it, deceives himself.

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  • ... his anger led him into what might have been a very grave folly, but when we are angry we are all foolish.

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  • Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

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  • She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

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Johanna Spyri, Swiss writer

(1827 - 1901)

Full name: Johanna Heusser Spyri.