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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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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
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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 her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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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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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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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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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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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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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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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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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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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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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