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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.
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
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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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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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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.
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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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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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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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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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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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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