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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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.
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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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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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 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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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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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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