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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrix Potter

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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Cat Doorstep Dust Kitten Name Once Time Upon
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they’ll take you.
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Delicious First Something Stories Story Word Writing
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Eating Effort Lettuce Much Said Soporific Too
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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Child Idea Myself Sea Trust Water
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
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Descendant Generations Influence Market Personality Strongly
I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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Fear Leave Obliged Pudding
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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Bed Eye Fell Flower God Land Lying Rough See Step Thank Walk
I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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Matter Prejudice Quater Religion Think Thinking Three Tradition
I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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Crowns Happy Marriage Old Fashioned
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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Beautiful Both Divine Equally Highest Lowest Nature Perfect
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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Alive Beauty Born Children Country Happen More Sometimes
I think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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House Little Live Shoes Thinking
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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Box Century Flower Garden Hedge Last Mysterious Overgrown People Rose Wood
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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Accident Country Father Garden People Person Pie
What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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Childhood Heaven More Real Spirit World
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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Brown Cap Cup Gown Hold Like Near Soap Stick Tea Wrong

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

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