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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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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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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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