"I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us"

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Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Magic Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.”
“Thus, while I thought myself employed only in forming a Nomenclature, and while I proposed to myself nothing more than to improve the chemical language, my work transformed itself by degrees, without my being able to prevent it, into a treatise upon the Elements of Chemistry.”
“The issue for me is American competitiveness, and how do we best create a climate here that allows international capital to come to these shores to create jobs.”
“The most reliable sign, the most universal behavior of unscrupulous people is not directed, as one might imagine, at our fearfulness. It is, perversely, an appeal to our sympathy.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.107, Harmony
“For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible.”
“All civilized people see the day beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to their work, during what they call 'all day long'; and end it when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long. On the contrary, the days are round.”
“I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.”
“Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.”

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