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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
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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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Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.
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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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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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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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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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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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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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As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
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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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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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