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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
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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 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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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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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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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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There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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She did not know that this was the best thing she could have done, and she did not know that, when she began to walk quickly or even run along the paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger by fighting with the wind which swept down from the moor.
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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.
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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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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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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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