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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
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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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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
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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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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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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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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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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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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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