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“And so it stood, a warm and vivid patch in his life, casting a radiance that glowed in a thousand recollections.”
― James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips

“Hence 8197. He liked 97 because it was the largest two-digit prime number, and he loved 81 because it was absolutely the only number out of all the literally infinite possibilities whose square root was also the sum of its digits. Square root of eighty-one was nine, and eight and one made nine. No other nontrivial number in the cosmos had that kind of sweet symmetry. Perfect.”
― Lee Child, Bad Luck and Trouble

“Play is the work of childhood.”
― Jean Piaget

“but chiefly I remember all your faces. I never forget them. I have thousands of faces in my mind—the faces of boys. If you come and see me again in years to come—as I hope you all will—I shall try to remember those older faces of yours, but it's just possible I shan't be able to—and then some day you'll see me somewhere and I shan't recognize you and you'll say to yourself, 'The old boy doesn't remember me.' [Laughter] But I DO remember you—as you are NOW. That's the point. In my mind you never grow up at all.”
― James Hilton, Goodbye, Mr. Chips!