"Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly……" — Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked."
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94 Quotes by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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