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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
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death is always sudden however long one waits.
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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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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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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
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Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
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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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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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