What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
BEATRIX POTTER
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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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Once 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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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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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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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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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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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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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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