Where you tend a rose, my lad,A thistle cannot grow.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett quotes & passages
3 passages by Frances Hodgson Burnett, from The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett died in 1924, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.
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