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Only in dreams of spring
Shall I ever see again
The flowering of my cherry trees.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Dream, Spring, Tree

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When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children, School, Thinking

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And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Girl, Children, Boys

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “The Secret Garden”, p.62, Random House Books for Young Readers

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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mistress, Mary, Contrary

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2015). “The Secret Garden”, p.11, BookRix

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Garden, Long, Alive

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.181, Penguin

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Children, Real, Sleep

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.137, Xist Publishing

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There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Men, Wit, Can Not

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Lady of Quality”, p.92, ShandonPress

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Moon, Purple, Shadow

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.197, Xist Publishing

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I shall live forever and ever and ever ' he cried grandly. 'I shall find out thousands and thousands of things. I shall find out about people and creatures and everything that grows - like Dickon - and I shall never stop making Magic. I'm well I'm well

Frances Hodgson Burnett

People, Forever, Magic

Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.168, GENERAL PRESS

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Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Magic In The World, People, Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.165, Xist Publishing

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Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

One Thing

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At that moment a very good thing was happening to her. Four good things had happened to her, in fact, since she came to Misselthwaite Manor. She had felt as if she had understood a robin and that he had understood her; she had run in the wind until her blood had grown warm; she had been healthily hungry for the first time in her life; and she had found out what it was to be sorry for someone.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Running, Sorry, Blood

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

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When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Uncles, Children, Selfish

The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

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The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Girl, Book, English History

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.9, Xist Publishing

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Tea, Cups, Used

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

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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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Goes On, Easy

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.21, Xist Publishing

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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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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nice, Thinking, Magic

Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.158, GENERAL PRESS

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Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Eye, Sparks, Moments

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “The Shuttle: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.263, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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The robin flew from his swinging spray of ivy on to the top of the wall and he opened his beak and sang a loud, lovely trill, merely to show off. Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off - and they are nearly always doing it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Wall, Ivy, Lovely

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.48, Penguin

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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.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Fire, Hot, Meals

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

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death is always sudden however long one waits.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Long, Waiting

Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Robin”, p.82, Trajectory Inc

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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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Born: November 24, 1849
Died: October 29, 1924
Occupation: Playwright
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