I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERMrs. 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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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 remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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