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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
Playwright
Short Story Writer
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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.
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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, 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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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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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. People who are fond of books know the feeling of irritation which sweeps over them at such a moment. The temptation to be unreasonable and snappish is one not easy to manage.
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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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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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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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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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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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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