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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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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
Dramaturge
Novelist
Playwright
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Sunshine
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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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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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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.
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If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
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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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It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?
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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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...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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