In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
BEATRIX POTTERMost people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat’s plate.
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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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We cannot stay home all our lives, we must present ourselves to the world and we must look upon it as an adventure.
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Mrs. Tiggy-winkle’s hand, holding the tea-cup, was very very brown, and very very wrinkly with the soap-suds; and all through her gown and her cap, there were HAIRPINS sticking wrong end out; so that Lucie didn’t like to sit too near her.
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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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Peter was not very well during the evening. His mother put him to bed, and made some chamomile tea: “One table-spoonful to be taken at bedtime.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense…
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Don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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