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Frances Hodgson Burnett has 94 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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"It's so beautiful!" she said, a little breathless with her speed. "You never saw anything so beautiful! It has come! I thought…
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Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must…
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One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess…
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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
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To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ…
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If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
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She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her…
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There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.
— Albert Einstein
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The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything…
— Martin Seligman
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Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
— Henry Ford
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.
— Peter McWilliams
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
— Plautus
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I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the…
— Enrico Colantoni
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As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.
— Gloria Allred
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By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional…
— Gifford Pinchot
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.…
— D. H. Lawrence
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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…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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