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People never like me and I never like people, she thought. And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
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One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
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It's so beautiful! she said, a little breathless with her speed. You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought it had come that other morning, but it was only coming. It is here now! It has come, the Spring!
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However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
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The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
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You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.
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we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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Whatever comes, she said, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
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If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
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Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon, said Colin. It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.
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