Everything was romantic in my imagination.
BEATRIX POTTEROnce upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their own; and they tumbled about the doorstep and played in the dust.
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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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The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden.
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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
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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?
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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