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From Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
- Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
- 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,…
- 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.…
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