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Where you tend a rose, a thistle cannot grow.

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Death is always sudden however long one waits.

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There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

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Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

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To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman

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I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.

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But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

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It is astonishing how short a time it takes for very wonderful things to happen.

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And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

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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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You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

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It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

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I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

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As long as one has a garden, one has a future; and as long as one has a future one is alive.

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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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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

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As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

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A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

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You and me are a good bit alike. We're neither of us good lookin', and we're both as sour as we look.

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What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.

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If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor

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And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.

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Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

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My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.

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She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

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Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. — (from Behind the White Brick)

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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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I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us.

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It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.

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