She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
("A Little Princess")
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Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.
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I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
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Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
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She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.
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The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
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