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

Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Book:The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)

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The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)

This illustrated edition of 'The Secret Garden' features captivating artwork that complements the timeless story of a young girl who discovers a hidden garden and brings it back to life. The novel, written by Frances Hodgson Burnett, is a classic tale of adventure, self-discovery, and the healing power of nature. more

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright known for her rich imagination and delicate emotional descriptions. Her works spanned various genres including drama, novels, and poetry, with her most famous works being 'Little Women' and 'The Secret Garden'. Born on November 24, 1849, she passed away on October 29, 1924. more

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“I would blossom if I were a rose.”

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“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”

School Lines Morning Four Feet Arms Ten Standing Sock

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“Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.”

Want Writing Said I Can Spoil Heroines

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“In the time it takes for her to walk from the bathhouse at the seawall of Fortune's Rocks, where she has left her boots and has discreetly pulled off her stockings, to the waterline along which the sea continually licks the pink and silver sand, she learns about desire.”

Desire Left Walks Sea Rocks Fortune Sand Silver Boots Stockings

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“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

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“not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take.”

Term Common Principles Subjects Mankind Argument Independent Common Sense Command Firm Justify Compelled

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretary of state

“Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.”

People Kind Real Care Dies Born Liberty Democracy Depends Guts Free Society Democracies Have Golden Notebook

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“I hated the 1960's feminists," she says. "They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.”

Common Feminist Common Sense Ideology Hated 1960s

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“How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”

Humans Looks Persons Feelings Mistake Laughing Involved Same Mistakes

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“All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.”

Thinking Art Spiritual Father Heaven Information New York Right Now Our Father

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