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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.
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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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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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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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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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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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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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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She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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You either build up or you tear down. You either keep in the light where you can see, or you stand in the dark and fight everything that comes near you, because you can't see and you think it's an enemy.
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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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