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That’s what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
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Language Robin Speak
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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Book Difficult Losing
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.
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Garden Likes World
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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Fall Nice Rain
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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Belief Grant Prayer
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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Little Look Princess Think
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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Garden Magic Men
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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Lovely Robin World
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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Children People Talk
Soldiers don’t complain…I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
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Complaining Soldiers War
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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Eye Moment Spark
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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Bears Go Prertend Talk
That’s what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT

Looks People Think