This girl, who was also know as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.

~ The Book of Esther

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"Excuse me - I don't want to be inquisitive - but should I be right in thinking that you are a Daughter of Eve?"

"My name is Lucy," said she, not quite understanding him.

"But you are - forgive me - you are what they call a girl?" asked the Faun.

"Of course I'm a girl," said Lucy.

"You are in fact Human?"

"Of course I'm human," said Lucy, still a little puzzled.

~ C. S. Lewis in The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe

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"La, child! you needn't mind that. I'll take care of you, and fix you up, so you won't look odd."

"Am I odd?" asked Polly, stuck by the word, and hoping it didn't mean anything very bad.

"YOu are a dear, and ever so much prettier than you were last summer, only you've been brought up differently from us; so your ways are not like ours, you see," began Fanny, finding it rather hard to explain.

"How different?" asked Polly again, for she liked to understand things.

"Well, you dress like a little girl, for one thing."

"I am a little girl; so why shouldn't I?" and Polly looked at her simple blue merino frock, stout boots, and short hair, with a puzzled air.

"You are fourteen; and we consider ourselves young ladies at that age," continued Fanny surveying, with complacency.

~ Louisa May Alcott in An Old-Fashioned Girl

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"Yes, and do you know why the stars are so full of joy, and wink at us so with their eyes?" asked Heidi.

"No, I don't know; what do you think about it?" asked Klara.

"Because they see up in heaven how well the dear Lord directs everything for people, so that they need have no anxiety and can be safe, because everything will happen for the best. That delights them so; see how they wink, that we may be happy too! But do you know, Klara, we must not forget our prayers; we must ask dear Lord to think of us, when he is directing everything so well, that we may always be safe and never be afraid of anything."

So the children sat up in bed and said their evening prayer. Then Heidi laid her head on her round arm and was asleep in a moment. But Klara stayed awake for a long time, for she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life as this sleeping room in the starlight.

~ Johanna Spyri in Heidi

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Polly had learned this secret. She loved to do the "little things" that others did not see, or were too busy to stop for; and while doing them, without a thought of thanks, she made sunshine for herself as well as others. There was so much love in her own home, that she quickly felt  the want of it in Fanny's, and puzzled herself to find out why these people were not kind and patient to one another. She did not try to settle the question, but did her best to love and serve and bear with each; and the goodwill, the gentle heart, the helpful ways and simple manners of our Polly made her dear to everyone, for these virtues, even in a little child, are lovely and attractive.

~ Louisa May Alcott in An Old-Fashioned Girl

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He said to them, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. . ." And he took the children in his arms, put his hands on them and blessed them.

~ The book of Mark

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Amy, though the youngest, was a most important person - in her own opinion at least. A regular snow-maiden, with blue eyes, and yellow hair, curling on her shoulders, pale and slender, and always carrying herself like a young lady mindful of her manners.

~ Louisa May Alcott in Little Women

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What the frog said, happened, and the queen had a little girl that was so beautiful that the king could not contain himself for joy, and made a great feast. He invited not only his relatives, friends, and acquaintanes, but also the wise women, that they might be gracious and kind to the child . . . The feast was splendidly celebrated, and when it was over the wise women gave the child their wonderful gifts. One gave her virtue, another beauty, another wealth, and so with everything that people want in the world.

~ The Brothers Grimm in Sleeping Beauty

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In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but with good works.

~ The book of first Timothy

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Let no man despise thy youth, but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

~ The book of first Timothy

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"Yes, I dote on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot. "Little darling! - with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!"

~ Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre

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"A remarkable child," said one of the sailors as Pippi desappeared in the distance.

He was right. Pippi was indeed a remarkable child. The most remarkable thing about her was that she was so strong. SHe was so very strong that in the whole wide world there was not a single police officer who was as strong as she. Why, she could lift a whole horse if she wanted to!

~ Astrid Lindgren in Pippi Longstocking

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A little girl brought a gift to her father and said, "This is for you, Daddy." He looked at her in confusion when he found the box empty. "Don't you know that when you give someone a present, there's supposed to be something inside it?" The little girl looked up at him and said, "Oh, Daddy, it is not empty. I blew kisses into the box. All for you, Daddy."

~ author unknown