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Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, Two, Way
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.111, Penguin

When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that th' whole orange doesn't belong to nobody. No one owns more than his bit of a quarter an' there's times it seems there's not enow quarters to go around. But don't you-none o' you- think as you own th' whole orange or you'll find out you're mistaken, an' you won't find it without hard knocks. What children learns from children, is that there's no sense grabbin' at th' whole orange-peel an' all. If you do you'll likely not get even th' pips, an' them's too bitter to eat.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, School, Thinking

And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creatures—instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Girl, Children, Boys
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2012). “The Secret Garden”, p.62, Random House Books for Young Readers

The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, Real, Sleep
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.137, Xist Publishing

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true too . . . she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Uncles, Children, Selfish
The Secret Garden ch. 1 (1911)

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2014). “Oxford Children's Classics: The Secret Garden”, p.65, Oxford University Press - Children

Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I'm a HIDEOUS child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, Princess, Trials
"A Little Princess".

People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, Talking, People
Frances Hodgson Burnett, General Press (2016). “The Secret Garden (Illustrated Edition)”, p.28, GENERAL PRESS

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children, Nice, Trials
Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.69, Xist Publishing

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