Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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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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I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.
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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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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. — There was another story in the paper a week or so since.
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Everything was romantic in my imagination.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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I am worn to a raveling.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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Thank goodness my education was neglected.
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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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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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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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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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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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The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself.
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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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This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.
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