Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.
("A Little Princess")
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I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.
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Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!
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You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll -- doll -- doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!
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How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.
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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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