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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
Everything
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Affection
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Is the spring coming? he said. What is it like?... It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
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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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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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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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...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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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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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 did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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