“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.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett , A Little Princess

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English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

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