Friendship Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

8 Friendship quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s eight brief musings on friendship read like gentle notes from a beloved storyteller. Their straightforward tone offers a quick, sincere reminder of the comfort and strength that friends provide.

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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 was a friendly creature, and lived a life so really isolated from any ordinary companionship that her simple little talks with…

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“She stopped and listened to him and somehow his cheerful, friendly little whistle gave her a pleased feeling--even a disagreeable little girl…

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“You are nicer than I am,” said Sara. “I was too proud to try and make friends. You see, now that trials…

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“There mostly is rats an’ mice in attics. You gets used to the noise they makes scuttling about. I’ve got so I…

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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…

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“Diamond mines spell ruin oftener than they spell wealth,” said Mr. Barrow. “When a man is in the hands of a very…

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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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“I've seen the spring now and I'm going to see the summer. I'm going to see everything grow here. I'm going to grow here…

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“If she had cried and sobbed and seemed frightened, Miss Minchin might almost have had more patience with her. She was a woman who…

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“I was thinking," she said. "Beg my pardon immediately," said Miss Minchin. "I will beg your pardon for laughing, if it was rude," said…

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“She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might…

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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…

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“You don't know that you are saying these things to a princess, and that if I chose I could wave my hand and order…

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“Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it…

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“They know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage and they are not, and they…

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“Tom's Cabin, and she spent many hours acting out”

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... justice is mercy's highest self.

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