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The Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie
George MacDonald

The Princess and Curdie is a children's classic fantasy novel by George MacDonald from late 1883.

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“I don't know how to thank you.'
Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better, and be better.”

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“There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and Curdie

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“Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.”

George MacDonald book The Princess and Curdie

The Princess and Curdie (1883)

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