I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
BEATRIX POTTERIt is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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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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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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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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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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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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 do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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