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That he should actually let her
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Am one of the ugliest children I ever saw. She is beginning
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Poor little thin, sallow, ugly Mary - she actually looked almost pretty for a moment.
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All women are princesses , it is our right.
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Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing.
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If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen.
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She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone
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There doesn't seem to be no need for no one to be contrary when there's flowers an' such like,
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A body 'as to move gentle an' speak low when wild things is about.
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Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
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There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
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Yorkshire word and means spoiled and
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It will be like a story from the Arabian Nights," he said. "Only an Oriental could have planned it. It does not belong to London fogs.
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When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.
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I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
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She IS too fat," said Lavinia. "And Sara is too thin.
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The mere fact of her sufferings and adventures made her a priceless possession.
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He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him.
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side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin.
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She had never seen a child who sat so still without doing anything;
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THE SECRET GARDEN
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Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans,
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Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn,
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dream - the real - real dream.
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So taking it, she stood among the dried, withered things and looked in tender regret at them.
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I am going to," answered
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You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.
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Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart
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If I go on talking and talking ... and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
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Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
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The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
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You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
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She would never tell him and he could stay in his room and never get any fresh air and die if he liked!
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Little Princess Little Lord
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It was a long corridor and it branched into other corridors and it led her up short flights of steps which mounted to others again. There
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Don't let us make it tidy," said Mary anxiously. "It wouldn't seem like a secret garden if it was tidy.
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to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend),
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I won't have dull people, she used to say, I'm dull myself.
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The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it.
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How dare you think?
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.
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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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Justice is mercy's highest self.
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How does thee like thyself?
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Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair."No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Whole monstrosity growing more huge and throwing out new and more awful tentacles every day.
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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
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There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.
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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 ... — Frances Hodgson Burnett
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
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Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.
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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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As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.
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alcoves, and once or twice he sat down
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That is the Magic. Being alive is the Magic - being strong is the Magic. The Magic is in me - the Magic is in me.
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Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he
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One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
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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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A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
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Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff.
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Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily.
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I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross.
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Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
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It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
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They're a pair of young Satans.
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Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure.
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It was so new and big and wonderful and such a heavenly color.
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She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted.
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you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it
but where's HOME ? — Frances Hodgson Burnett
stories belong to everybody.
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Secret garden that morning, and in the midst of
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Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only
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It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.
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The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
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But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
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I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara
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Death is always sudden however long one waits.
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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us
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We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.
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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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I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle.
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That afternoon the whole world seemed to devote itself to being perfect and radiantly beautiful and kind to one boy.
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Thoughts - just mere thoughts - are as powerful as electric batteries - as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.
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Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story ... everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
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The tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend it was anything but tea.
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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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She lay and listened to the quietness.
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There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.
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Things happen to people by accident.
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Soldiers don't complain ... I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
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To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body.
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Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes;
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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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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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