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“Non, monsieur. Je n'ai pas le canif de mon oncle.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett: Citations en anglais

“Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair.
"No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

“So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“All women are princesses, it is our right.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“Oh, how she did love that queer, common boy!”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“If Sara had been a boy and lived a few centuries ago, her father used to say, 'she would have gone about the country with her sword drawn, rescuing and defending everyone in distress. She always wants to fight when she sees people in trouble.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear. Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“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.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“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.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

“Things happen to people by accident.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“It's true," she said. "Sometimes I do pretend I am a princess. I pretend I am a princess, so that I can try and behave like one.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“She looked into the staring glass eyes and complacent face, and suddenly a sort of heartbroken rage seized her. She lifted her little savage hand and knocked Emily off the chair, bursting into a passion of sobbing- Sara who never cried.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

“I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

“That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“Soldiers don't complain… I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett La Petite Princesse

Source: A Little Princess

“You and me are a good bit alike. We're neither of us good lookin', and we're both as sour as we look.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Ben
The Secret Garden (1909)

“You can't marry this Archibald. He's a gloomy, miserable cripple that hides himself away in that horrible house. You've said it yourself, you can't believe you love him and neither can I!”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Rose
The Secret Garden (1909)

“Yorkshire’s th’ sunniest place on earth when it is sunny.”

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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter 7

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