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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.
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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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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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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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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