“Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people… Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.”

— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

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English-American childrens' playwright and author 1849–1924

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