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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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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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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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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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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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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Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like?... It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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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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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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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When a man looks at the stars, he grows calm and forgets small things. They answer his questions and show him that his earth is only one of the million worlds. Hold your soul still and look upward often, and you will understand their speech. Never forget the stars.
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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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...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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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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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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