"sticks and stones don't break bones," she chanted. yoyo could tell, though, by the look on her face, it was as if one of those stones the kids had aimed at her daughters had hit her. but she always pretended they were at fault. "what did you do to provoke them? it takes two to tangle, you know.”
what is the original meaning of the underlined idiom in this excerpt?
people should not criticize others if they have similar problems.
sometimes, it is difficult for a person to make a decision.
words cannot actually hurt a person like sticks and ston

"facing the rising sun of our new day begun

let us march on till victory is won.",

because the rising sun is a symbol of hope.

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nature is sure to be the best thing on earth

the sunshine and beauty is sure to be worth

this can't be sold

for any money or gold

because nature is strongly beautiful and is the best thing to happen on earth

it was surely an odd creature that one made up by reading the historians first and the poets afterwards a worm winged like an eagle; the spirit of life and elegance and charm,   in a kitchen chopping up suet. but these creatures, monst'r however entertaining to the imagination, hast no existence in fact. what one might doth to bringeth h'r to life wast to bethink poetically and prosaically at one and the same moment,   thus keeping in toucheth with fact—that the lady is mrs martin, ag'd thirty-six, did dress in blue, wearing a black coxcomb and brown shoeth; but not losing sight of fiction eith'r—that the lady is a vessel in which all s'rts of spirits and f'rces art coursing and flashing p'rpetually. the moment, howev'r, yond one tries this method with the elizabethan mistress, one brancheth of illumination fails; one is did hold up by the scarcity of facts.   one knoweth nothing detailed, nothing p'rfectly true and substantial about h'r.   hist'ry scarcely mentions h'r.   and i did turn to professeth'r trevelyan again to seeth what hist'ry meanteth to that gent.   i hath found by looking at his chapt'r headings yond t meanteth.

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