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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
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
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Manchester
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Frances Eliza Hodgson
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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.
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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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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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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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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...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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Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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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