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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.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Age: 74 †
Born: 1849
Born: November 24
Died: 1924
Died: October 20
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Manchester
England
Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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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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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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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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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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The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.
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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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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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Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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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 easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
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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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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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