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Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

— P. L. Travers The World of the Hero (1976)

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Mary Poppins herself had flown away, but the gifts she had brought would remain for always..

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Tonight the small are free from the great and the great protect the small.

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I always thought dancing improper; but it can't be since I myself am dancing.

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These men — Yeats, James Stephens, and the rest — had aristocratic minds. For them, the world was not fragmented. An idea did not suddenly grow … all alone and separate.

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