I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
BEATRIX POTTERIt sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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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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Then Mrs. Tiggy-winkle made tea – a cup for herself and a cup for Lucie. They sat before the fire on a bench and looked sideways at one another.
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I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
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It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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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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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife.
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One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master’s plate, the other on its own.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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