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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.

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

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  1. She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  2. Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  3. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It’s almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  4. If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. – King Amor – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  5. Thoughts — just mere thoughts — are as powerful as electric batteries — as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  6. Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way – or always to have it. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  7. They’re a pair of young Satans. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  8. 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 – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  9. 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. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  10. You said th’ Magic was in my back. Th’ doctor calls it rheumatics. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  11. Why, we are just the same – I am only a little girl like you. It’s just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me! – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  12. We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  13. You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you’re too curious. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
  14. Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions. – Amit Kalantri
  15. Plenty are the tastes and plenty are the paths. – Abhijit Naskar
  16. On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away. – Annie Dillard
  17. When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people. – Margaret Heffernan
  18. What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let’s add the planet to that list – Sahndra Fon Dufe
  19. Faith had always told herself that she was not like other ladies. But neither, it seemed, were other ladies. – Frances Hardinge
  20. She found herself longing for home-not just for the hotel but for New York and all the real novels that she could lose herself in there. – Anna Godbersen
  21. Her eyes reversed into herself, to watch the secret heart of herself pounding itself into pieces against the side of her chest. – Ray Bradbury
  22. The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own. – Betty Friedan
  23. … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese
  24. She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. – H Raven Rose
  25. She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself. – Sara Sheridan
  26. There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband’s superior wisdom in all matters – Philip K
  27. There’s nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted. – Anne Bront
  28. A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession. – Martin H Fischer
  29. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline. – Diane Setterfield
  30. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde
  31. Console the failure, but nurture the hunger. – Bryan Cranston
  32. Truth… has no obligation to console you. – Osho
  33. The giant console, high ceilings, and glass windows mean nothing than love from the heart. – Auliq Ice
  34. It’s easy to say you don’t care about money when you have plenty of it. – Ransom Riggs
  35. That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929. – Anna Godbersen
  36. Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don’t think it right. – Oscar Wilde
  37. life’s better with girls. boys need girls. – Jodi Lynn Anderson
  38. The other day, a friend of a friend said that everyone started out as girls, but boys evolved-¦ But don’t worry girls, I hit him. – Ben Mitchell
  39. She isn’t like any of the girls I ever knew, or any of the girls I was myself. – LM Montgomery
  40. I was attracted to girly boys and boyish girls, or girls who later became boys. Boy were always going to be part of the equation. – Zoe Whittall

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