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The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

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
Always
Loud
Swinging
World
Lovely
Robins
Merely
Robin
Wall
Spray
Quite
Sang
Trill
Show
Flew
Beak
Shows
Opened
Beaks
Nothing
Nearly
Ivy

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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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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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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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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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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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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
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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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