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.
BEATRIX POTTERI remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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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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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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Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
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I have just made stories to please myself, because I never grew up.
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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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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child.
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
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The shorter and the plainer the better.
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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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When gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta – there lived a tailor in Gloucester.
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Here comes Peter Cottontail right down the bunny trail.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.
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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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Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter.
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So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
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