She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and … - Frances Hodgson Burnett

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But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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All women are princesses , it is our right.

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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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Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

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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.

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But what if everyone in the world behaved like me and came here and shot Brisseau through the ear? What a mess! And of course we'd need valet parking.

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In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail. ' Wink, wink.

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As soon as you believe that a label you've put on yourself is true, you've limited something that is literally limitless, you've limited who you are into nothing but a thought.

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Marie Curie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

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Julian Barnes

He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women to understand them, and to that end they tell them all their secrets; and then, when they are properly understood, they hate their women for understanding them.

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