A Quote by Frances Hodgson Burnett

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Anyone Clever Deliberately Enough Ought Person Unjust Unkind

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Frances Hodgson Burnett
American - Novelist
November 24, 1849 - October 29, 1924

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