“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.”

—  Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

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English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

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