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a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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
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Frances Eliza Hodgson
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett
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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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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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Her affection for everything she could love increased.
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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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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have 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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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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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
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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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Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
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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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