The Essential Collection for Young Readers

by Ruskin Bond

‘It would be a dull world if it was the same everywhere,’

Never agree to do something without knowing what it is.’

madness is not seeing things as others see them.’

people’s faces after they had discovered the loss of their valuables. The greedy showed panic; the rich showed anger; the poor, resignation.

it is much easier to steal something than to return it undetected.

‘The world is only the size of each man’s head.’

handwriting was often the key to a man’s character, and that large, well-formed letters went with an uncluttered mind.