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Quotation from Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“It was really a very simple thing, after all,--it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett (spoken by Narrator)

Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter XV (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Frances Hodgson Burnett

At the birthday feast the narrator explains why a boy raised among grocers and bootblacks is fit to be an earl.

Citation: "It was really a very simple thing, after all,--it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts always and to care for others." — Frances Hodgson Burnett, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Chapter XV (Project Gutenberg text). (id little-lord-fauntleroy-q6)

Portrait: Fauntleroy-FC-1886, Reginald Birch (illustrator); Charles Scribner's Sons, Public domain.

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