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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.

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
Writer
Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Glow
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Cannot
Joy
Softly
Looks
Stories
Sleep
Feds
Children
Stills
Eyes
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Truth
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Midst
Even
Still
Gone
Grown
Long
Find
Story
Unhappy
Wakened
Look
Eye
Warm
Slept

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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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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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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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She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.
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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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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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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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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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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 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.
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