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Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Born 1849 in Manchester · Died 1924 in New York City

writer, novelist, playwright · United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States

Notable works: Little Lord Fauntleroy, A Little Princess, The Secret Garden, A Lady of Quality, The Making of a Marchioness

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A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time

From Project Gutenberg e-text #37332 (public domain in the USA).

If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

— Spoken by a character · XI. RAM DASS

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If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things,--help and comfort and laughter,--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

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The Secret Garden

From Project Gutenberg e-text #113 (public domain in the USA).

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

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“Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.”

— Spoken by a character · XXVII. IN THE GARDEN

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