It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born..
BEATRIX POTTEROne 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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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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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets.
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I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.
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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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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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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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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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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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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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Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
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With opportunity the world is very interesting.
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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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I fear that we shall be obliged to leave this pudding
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