Never thee stop believin’ in th’ Big Good Thing an’ knowin’ th’ world’s full of it – and call it what tha’ likes. Tha’ wert singin’ to it when I come into t’ garden.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETTSoldiers don’t complain…I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
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If I go on talking and talking…and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don’t forget, but you bear it better.
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People never like me and I never like people,” she thought. “And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.
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She says it has nothing to do with what you look like, or what you have. It has only to do with what you think of and what you do.
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To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
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we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if ’tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.
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Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
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There’s naught as nice as th’ smell o’ good clean earth, except th’ smell o’ fresh growin’ things when th’ rain falls on ’em.
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That’s what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
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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.
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Soldiers don’t complain…I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
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The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
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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 knew the moment of its kindling.
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