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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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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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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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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.
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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.
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She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
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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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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 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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, he said wisely one day, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.
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