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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.
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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Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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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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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As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
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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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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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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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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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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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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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... justice is mercy's highest self.
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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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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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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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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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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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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