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Book Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 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…
- 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.…
- She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
- 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.
- 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 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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