"It's so different to be a sparrow. But……" — Frances Hodgson Burnett
"It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?"
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94 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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