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Them Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
- Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or…
- In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves - nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to…
- That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
- 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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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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