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Mistress Mary Quite Contrary
... justice is mercy's highest self.
Things happen to people by accident.
Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
All women are princesses , it is our right.
People never like me and I never like people
death is always sudden however long one waits.
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.
Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.
Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?
So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.
Her affection for everything she could love increased.
There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.
Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.
I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman
But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.
Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.
And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.
The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man.
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.
Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.
I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.
As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.
As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.
Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.
That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.
Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.
Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.
What you have to do with your mind, when your body is miserable, is to make it think of something else.
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
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
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.
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.
Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine.
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.