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She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

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Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princ...more

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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.

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There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

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Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. People wh...more