I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
BEATRIX POTTERPeter 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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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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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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I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
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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 think if she lived in A little shoe-house That little old woman was Surely a mouse!
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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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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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What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?
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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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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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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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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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