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• That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.65, Xist Publishing

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• Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Oxford Children's Classics: The Secret Garden”, p.65, Oxford University Press - Children

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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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Missing, Stories

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• Imagine, if you can, what the rest of the evening was like. How they crouched by the fire which blazed and leaped and made much of itself in the little grate. How they removed the covers of the dishes, and found rich, hot savory soup, which was a meal in itself, and sandwiches and toast and muffins enough for both of them.

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  Fire, Hot, Meals

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.134, Xist Publishing

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• As she came closer to him she noticed that there was a clean fresh scent of heather and grass and leaves about him, almost as if he were made of them. She liked it very much and when she looked into his funny face with the red cheeks and round blue eyes she forgot that she had felt shy.

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  Eye, Blue, Heathers

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.66, GENERAL PRESS

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• I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Princess, Trying, Behave

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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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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  Clever, Unjust, Enough

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Sara Crewe: Or, What Happened at the Miss Minchin's Boarding School”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  War, Soldier, Complaining

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• I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Care, Littles, Said

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.132, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Talking, Goes On, Bears

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Nice, Trials

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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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?

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Different, Sparrows, Rats

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.75, Xist Publishing

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• Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Nice, Adversity, People

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “A Little Princess”, p.110, Collector's Library

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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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Talking, People

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.28, GENERAL PRESS

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• You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Springtime, Curious, Easier

  Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.102, GENERAL PRESS

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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

  Heart, Hair, Littles

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “A Little Princess”, p.10, Booklassic

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• People never like me and I never like people

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  People, Like Me

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.30, Xist Publishing

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• To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Robins, Speaking French, Speak

  Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery, Eleanor H. Porter, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Brontë (2011). “25 Favorite Novels”, p.5417, Smashbooks

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• Her affection for everything she could love increased.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Affection

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.83, Xist Publishing

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• On the hob was a little brass kettle, hissing and boiling; spread upon the floor was a warm, thick rug; before the fire was a folding-chair, unfolded and with cushions on it; by the chair was a small folding-table, unfolded, covered with a white cloth, and upon it were spread small covered dishes, a cup and saucer, and a tea-pot; on the bed were new, warm coverings, a curious wadded silk robe, and some books. The little, cold, miserable room seemed changed into Fairyland. It was actually warm and glowing.

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  Book, White, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “Racketty-Packetty House and Other Stories”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Princess, Trials

  "A Little Princess".

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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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Mother, Party, Gay

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.5, Penguin

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• What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Thinking, Mind, Body

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.104, Xist Publishing

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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.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Fighting, Wind, Stronger

  "Charming Novels of Classic Heroines".

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• Listen to th' wind wutherin' round the house," she said. "You could bare stand up on the moor if you was out on it tonight." Mary did not know what "wutherin'" meant until she listened, and then she understood. It must mean that hollow shuddering sort of roar which rushed round and round the house, as if the giant no one could see were buffeting it and beating at the walls and windows to try to break in. But one knew he could not get in, and somehow it made one feel very safe and warm inside a room with a red coal fire.

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  Wall, Mean, Fire

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.38, Xist Publishing

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